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  • THE FOURTH US NAVAL OBSERVA...
    Zacharias, N; Finch, C T; Girard, T M; Henden, A; Bartlett, J L; Monet, D G; Zacharias, M I

    The Astronomical journal, 02/2013, Letnik: 145, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    UCAC4 is an updated version of UCAC3 with about the same number of stars also covering all-sky. Bugs were fixed, Schmidt plate survey data were avoided, and precise five-band photometry was added for about half the stars. Astrograph observations have been supplemented for bright stars by FK6, Hipparcos, and Tycho-2 data to compile a UCAC4 star catalog complete from the brightest stars to about magnitude R = 16. Epoch 1998-2004 positions are obtained from observations with the 20 cm aperture USNO Astrograph's "red lens," equipped with a 4k by 4k CCD. Mean positions and PMs are derived by combining these observations with over 140 ground- and space-based catalogs, including Hipparcos/Tycho and the AC2000.2, as well as unpublished measures of over 5000 plates from other astrographs. These data are supplemented by 2MASS near-IR photometry for about 110 million stars and five-band (B, V, g. r, i) APASS data for over 51 million stars.