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I/122 Bonner Durchmusterung (Argelander 1859-62)
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Bonner Durchmusterung
Argelander F.W.A.
<Bonner Sternverzeichniss, erste bis dritte Sektion, Astronomischen
Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte des Koeniglichen Rheinishen
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn, Baende 3-5, (1859-62)>
=1862bost.book.....A
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ADC_Keywords: Surveys; Durchmusterungen
Description:
The Bonner Durchmusterung (BD, Argelander 1859-62, Kuestner 1903,
Becker 1951, Schmidt 1968) is a visual survey of stars in the
declination zones +89 to -01 degrees. The goal of the survey was to
obtain a position and estimated visual magnitude for every star
visible with the 78-mm Bonn telescope. Actual magnitude estimates
were made and reported to 0.1 mag for all stars down to 9.5 mag,
with fainter stars being assigned to 9.5. Positions are given to
the nearest 0.1 sec in right ascension and 0.1 arcmin in
declination.
Introduction:
The Bonner Durchmusterung (BD, Argelander 1859-62, Kuestner 1903,
Becker 1951, Schmidt 1968) is a visual survey of stars in the
declination zones +89 to -01 degrees performed by allowing the
telescope to drift along the mean declination of each zone and
recording the positions and magnitudes of stars crossing the
transit line of each field. Actual magnitude estimates were made
and reported to 0.1 mag for all stars down to 9.5 mag, with fainter
stars being assigned to 9.5. The BD actually contains a rather
large number of stars fainter than 10.0 mag. Positions are given to
the nearest 0.1 sec in right ascension and 0.1 arcmin in
declination.
The catalog includes all corrigenda published in the original BD
volumes have been incorporated into the machine file, along with
changes published by Kuestner and Sticker following the 1903
edition. In addition, stars indicated to be "missing" in published
lists and verified by various techniques are flagged so that they
can be omitted from computer plotted charts if desired. Stars
deleted in the various errata lists have been similarly flagged,
while those with revised data are flagged and listed in a separate
table. No other corrections or changes have been incorporated into
the original data, e.g., from more modern positions and magnitudes
or from comparison with other catalogs.
The original document (adc.doc) contains substantial additional
information.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
adc.doc 111 1430 The original document
bd.dat 30 325037 The Bonner Durchmusterung catalog
bdchg.dat 100 692 Changes since the original printing
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See alos:
I/119 : Southern part "Suedlicher Durchmusterung" (-02 to -23 degrees)
I/114 : Cordoba Durchmusterung (-22 to -90 degrees)
I/108 : Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (-18 to -90 degrees)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: bd.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 A2 --- cat [BD] The catalog prefix
3 A1 --- zonesign [+-]The sign of the declination zone
4- 5 I2 deg zone The declination zone
6- 10 I5 --- num The number of the star within the zone
11 A1 --- suppl *[a-c D*?M] Note
12- 15 F4.1 mag mag *Estimated visual magnitude
16- 17 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1855 (hours)
18- 19 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1855 (minutes)
20- 23 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension, 1855 (seconds)
24- 24 A1 --- DE- [+-]Sign of declination
25- 26 I2 deg DEd Declination 1855 (degrees)
27- 30 F4.1 arcmin DEm Declination 1855 (minutes)
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Note on suppl:
a, b, or c: star is added in the 1903 or later editions
* Data have been corrected as a result of corrigenda
? Existence of the star by Kuestner or Sticker
D The star was deleted in a later edition by overstriking
M The star was noted as missing by Chandler or Pickering
Note on mag:
20.0 = neb; 30.0 = var; 40.0 = nova or nova?; 50.0 = integrated
magnitude for a cluster
Byte-by-byte Description of file: bdchg.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- zone The BD zone
5- 8 I4 --- num The BD number
9 A1 --- suppl [ab ] Supplemental designation
11- 15 A5 --- field The field changed
17- 25 A9 --- old The printed value
27- 35 A9 --- new The corrected value
37-100 A64 --- note *Comments
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Note on note:
1 Star of approximately 13 mag at nominal position.
2 There is a "?" in the 1903 edition. No star could be found on the POSS
prints or on the Vehrenberg Atlas Stellarum chart.
3 Star of approximately 12 mag at nominal position.
4 Candidate in field, but it is 3 arcmin north of the BD position.
Star listed by Upgren et al. (1972) at right ascension an hour
away from the BD position.
5 Faint star(s) in field, but "M" flag retained in record.
6 Possible variability noted by Kuestner (1918).
7 Existence also questioned by Kuestner (1908).
8 There is a "?" in the 1903 edition that was later removed by
Kuestner (1918).
9 There is a "?" in the 1903 edition of the BD.
10 Non-BD star within 10 arcmin of nominal BD position.
11 Non-BD star within 10 arcmin of nominal BD position; existence
questioned by Kuestner.
12 Non-BD star within 10 arcmin of nominal BD position. There is a "?"
a "?" in the 1903 edition of the BD.
13 There is a question mark in the 1903 edition that was later removed
by Kuestner (1918). There is a non-BD star within 10' of nominal
BD position.
History:
The data in the machine-readable Bonner Durchmusterung were
keypunched directly from the published catalogs through the
collaborative efforts of personnel at l'Observatoire de Nice, the
Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg, the National Space
Science Data Center at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and
with the help of B. N. Rappaport, then at the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. The following is the distribution of the work:
Zones Location
+89 to +60 Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)
+59 to +26 L'Observatoire de Nice
+25 to +24 National Space Science Data Center (also CDS)
+23 to +20 B. N. Rappaport (+23 also done at CDS)
+19 to -01 National Space Science Data Center (+14 also done
at Nice)
Zones +89 to +60 were also verified at the CDS and zones +59 to +26
were proofread there, while the remaining zones were proofread at
the Astronomical Data Center. Redundant zones were compared by
computer and appropriate corrections were made. All zones were
carefully examined, checked for sequencing and record counts,
reformatted, and merged in the correct order at the ADC, where the
final catalog was assembled. The supplemental entries were
incorporated into the ADC/NSSDC and Rappaport zones from an earlier
catalog prepared by Warren and Kress (1980) or used to check
existing supplemental entries in the Nice and CDS zones. The
published corrigenda lists were cross checked extensively against
the reprinted editions of the catalog for preparation of the tables
in the appendix of this document. Apparent discrepancies were
checked on the BD charts and on the prints of the Vehrenberg Atlas
Stellarum. The final catalog was run through a verification program
that checked numerical sequencing of the BD numbers, monotonic
increase in right ascension, and allowed data ranges. All cases
where stars are out of RA order were checked in the original data
to verify that their positions are as in the original catalog.
The final file is ordered north to south strictly by BD number,
i.e., in the zone order +89; +88; ...; -01. Users should note,
however, that all stars are not strictly in right ascension order
within each zone. This is because individual stars are occasionally
out of RA order in the original catalog and because of corrections
inserted from the corrigenda. Thus, if the machine catalog is
sorted by increasing RA, e.g., for search purposes, some BD numbers
will become disordered.
*(20-Sep-1995, F. Ochsenbein, at CDS): Three further corrections
made on stars:
BD+65 820 (was named BD+65 821),
BD+65 821 (was named BD+65 821!).
BD-00 1000 (a digit was missing in the DEm field)
Acknowledgments:
This immense project was successfully completed only through the
combined efforts of the institutes and individuals listed above and
the work of many persons within those institutes. The initial work
at the Astronomical Data Center/NSSDC was begun and supervised by
Drs. J. M. Mead, T. A. Nagy, and Wayne Warren, Jr. but the punching
could never have been begun, nor the project completed without the
support of the former NSSDC Director, Dr. James I. Vette. This
support continued under Dr. James L. Green, and the Head of NSSDC's
Central Data Services Facility, Dr. Joseph H. King. The NSSDC zones
(+19 to -01 ) were punched by Beth Alexander, Carol Bergstrom, and
Margy Goodwin, while monitoring software for data transfer was
written by Frank Barnes and migration to magnetic tape was done by
Charleen Perry under the supervision of Ralph Post. ADC software
for the formatting of binary data and for the exact reproduction of
published pages for proofreading was written by Wayne Warren Jr.
but the actual proofing was accomplished by summer students Paula
Feldman and Kimberly Kniffen, who also assisted greatly with error
checking, recording, and data corrections. Zones +24 and +25 were
keyed directly to disk, printed, and proofread by Warren, while B.
N. Rappaport arranged for the keypunching of zones +23 to +20 by
Syntronix, Incorporated, of Sherman Oaks, California, checked the
data with his own computer programs and financed the work himself.
The punching of zones +59 to +26 was accomplished at l'Observatoire
de Nice by M. Fulconis, under the direction of P. Couteau, and
their proofreading was done at the CDS by M. J. Wagner and W.
Maslo. Zones +80 to +60 were keyed directly to disk at the CDS by
M. J. Wagner, W. Maslo, and R. Bonnet, with preprocessing software
written and implemented by F. Ochsenbein. Zones +25 and +24 were
also computerized at the CDS and used to check the data prepared at
the Astronomical Data Center. Finally, the compilers thank Dr. R.
A. Downes of Applied Research Corporation for bringing the
"missing" stars to our attention, for supplying a complete list of
the stars, and for rechecking certain questionable cases.
This document is based on the original ADC document prepared by
Wayne Warren Jr.
References:
Argelander F. W. A. 1859-1862, Bonner Sternverzeichniss, erste bis
dritte Sektion, Astronomischen Beobachtungen auf der
Sternwarte des Koeniglichen Rhein.,
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Bonn, Bande 3-5.
Becker F. 1951, Bonner Durchmusterung, Noerdlicher Teil,
Deklinations-Zonen -1 bis +89 grade Sternverzeichnis, dritte,
berichtigte Auflage (Bonn: Ferd. Duemmlers Verlag).
Chandler S. C. 1896, Astron. J. 16, 145.
Couteau P., Fulconis M., Ochsenbein F., Wagner M. J., and
Maslo W. 1983, Inf. Bull. CDS No. 25, p. 83.
Giclas H. L., Burnham R. Jr., and Thomas N. G. 1971, Lowell
Proper Motion Survey, Northern Hemisphere, The G Numbered Stars
(Flagstaff: Lowell Observatory).
Kuestner F. 1903, Bonner Durchmusterung des Noerdlichen Himmels,
zweite berichtigte Auflage, Bonn Universitats Sternwarte (Bonn:
A. Marcus und E. Weber's Verlag).
Kuestner F. 1908, Astron. Nach. 178, 33 (Nr. 4251).
Kuestner F. 1918, Astron. Nach. 206, 69 (Nr. 4929).
Kuestner F. 1925, Astron. Nach. 223, 309 (Nr. 5347).
Luyten W. J. 1979, 1980, New Luyten Catalogue of Stars with Proper
Motions Larger than Two Tenths of an Arcsecond (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota).
Luyten W. J. and Hughes H. S. 1980, Proper Motion Survey with the
Forty- Eight Inch Schmidt Telescope. LV. First Supplement to the
NLTT Catalogue (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota).
Pickering E. C. 1885, Harv. Ann. 14.
Pickering E. C. 1892, Harv. Ann. 23.
Pickering E. C. 1907, Astron. Nach. 175, 139.
Pickering E. C. 1913, Harv. Ann. 72.
Schmidt H. 1968, Bonner Durchmusterung, Noerdlicher Teil,
Deklinations-Zonen -1 bis +89 grade Sternverzeichnis, vierte
Auflage (Bonn: Ferd. Duemmlers Verlag).
Sticker B. 1935, Astron. Nach. 256, 341 (Nr. 6139).
Sticker B. 1936, Astron. Nach. 259, 187 (Nr. 6203).
Sticker B. 1938, Astron. Nach. 265, 127 (Nr. 6344).
Upgren A. R., Grossenbacher R., Penhallow W. S., MacConnell D. J.,
and Frye R. L. 1972, Astron. J. 77, 486.
Wagner M. J. 1984, Inf. Bull. CDS No. 26, p. 87.
Wagner M. J. 1986, Inf. Bull. CDS No. 30, p. 117.
Warren W. H. Jr. 1987, Inf. Bull. CDS No. 32, p. 67.
Warren W. H. Jr. and Kress K. 1980, Astron. Data Center Bull. 1, 19.
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(End) Nancy G. Roman [NSSDC/ADC] 12-Nov-1994, modified CDS 20-Sep-1995