Table information for 'cstl.geo'

General

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Resource Description: This table contains constellation data from Davenhall et al, ivo://cds.vizier/vi/49, converted to ADQL-queriable polygons. The polygons use the J2000 points, and we skip the interpolated points.

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Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 1997yCat.6049....0D (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:cstl_geo,
  year=2021,
  title={Constellations as Polygons},
  author={Davenhall, A.C. and Legget, S.K.},
  url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/cstl.geo},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
abbrev Abbrev Abbreviation of the constellation name N/A meta.id;meta.main
name Name Full name of the constellation name N/A meta.id
p Polygon The coverage of the constallation N/A pos
ra RA Representative RA (actually, the mean of the vertices) deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
dec Dec Representative Dec (actually, the mean of the vertices) deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main

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