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- SIMPLE = T / Standard FITS format
- BITPIX = 8 / Character information
- NAXIS = 0 / No image data array present
- EXTEND = T / There may be standard extensions
- BLOCKED = T / The file may be blocked
- ORIGIN = 'ADC ' / This file written at the ADC, NASA/GSFC
- DATE = '23/09/91' / Date file written (dd/mm/yy)
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- COMMENT The Catalogue of Stars Within 25 parsecs of the Sun
- COMMENT
- COMMENT The "Catalogue of Stars within twenty-five parsecs of the Sun" (Woolley,
- COMMENT Epps, Penston and Pocock 1970) was constructed at the Royal Greenwich
- COMMENT Observatory in order to enlarge the "Catalogue of Nearby Stars" compiled
- COMMENT by Gliese (1957). The catalogue contains data on stars nearer than 25
- COMMENT pc which are not included in Gliese's catalogue, plus additional
- COMMENT information published since 1957 on stars in the Gliese compilation.
- COMMENT
- COMMENT The machine-readable version of the catalog contains essentially all
- COMMENT information given in Table Ia of the published catalogue, plus
- COMMENT positional data and all cross references to other catalogue numbers
- COMMENT given in Table IIa. Not included from Table Ia are the flags (asterisks
- COMMENT appended to catalogue numbers) indicating notes in the published
- COMMENT catalogue, nor are the notes in machine-readable form. Omitted from
- COMMENT Table IIa are the finding chart identifiers (Lowell G numbers or notes
- COMMENT reference) and miscellaneous cross identifications to other names and
- COMMENT catalogue identifiers. Tables Ib and IIb, containing 21 systems
- COMMENT originally included in Gliese's (1957) catalogue, but for which revised
- COMMENT parallaxes have placed them farther than 25 pc, are not included in the
- COMMENT machine-readable version. A useful extension to the present
- COMMENT machine-readable catalogue would be the addition of the cross
- COMMENT identifiers and the creation of a separate file containing the notes.
- COMMENT
- COMMENT Source Reference: Woolley, R., Epps, E. A., Penston, M. J. and Pocock,
- COMMENT S. B. 1970, Roy. Obs. Ann., No. 5.
- COMMENT
- COMMENT Documentation Reference: Warren Jr., W.H. 1982, Doc. No.
- COMMENT NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 82-03
- COMMENT
- COMMENT A copy of the documentation should accompany any computer-readable
- COMMENT version of the catalog. The FITS Table header(s) in this file only give
- COMMENT the basic format of the catalog. Please refer to the documentation or
- COMMENT source reference for a more detailed discussion of the data.
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- END
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