Cape Photographic Catalogue
The Cape Photographic Catalogue (CPC) is a star catalogue containing 68,467 stars in the Southern Hemisphere whose declinations are either between −30° and −40° or between −52° and −90°. It contains positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and spectral types, and was published by the Cape Observatory between 1954 and 1968.[1] This was the last major astronomical catalogue to be assembled without the use of photoelectric sequences.[2]
This catalogue was conceived by H. S. Jones and undertaken by R. H. Stoy in 1938 under the direction of J. Jackson. The photographic plates were taken using the Cape twin photometric cameras, cataloguing stars down to about magnitude 11.[2]
References
- ^ Jackson, J.; Stoy, R. H. (May 1996), "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Cape Photographic Catalog 1950.0 (CPC) (Jackson+ 1954-1968)", VizieR On-line Data Catalog: I/116, Bibcode:1996yCat.1116....0J.
- ^ a b Hearnshaw, J. B. (May 2, 1996), The Measurement of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521403931.
Further reading
- Stoy, R. H. (May 1960), "The Cape photographic and meridian programs", Astronomical Journal, 65: 199, Bibcode:1960AJ.....65..199S, doi:10.1086/108224