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This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 1983MPC..7759...... (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:obscode_data, year=2010, title={Observatory Codes}, author={Minor Planet Center}, url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/obscode.data}, howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center} }
In addition to the values given in the original MPC list, we give the geocentric and geodetic latitudes and the height (more or less above sea level) computed from the parallax constants given in the source. The data in MPC's list is given to three to six decimal places, so the accuracy of these values is usually not better than a couple of dozen meters (and can be substantially worse at times).
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Name | Table Head | Description | Unit | UCD |
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code | Code | Observatory Code assigned by the Minor Planet Center | N/A | meta.id |
long | Long. | Longitude of the observatory | deg | pos.earth.lon |
cosphip | rho cos(phi') | Parallax constant, cosine | N/A | N/A |
sinphip | rho sin(phi') | Parallax constant, sine | N/A | N/A |
gclat | GC Lat. | Geocentric latitude of the observatory | deg | pos.earth.lat;pos.geocentric |
gdlat | GD Lat. | Geodetic latitude of the observatory WGS84 | deg | pos.earth.lat;pos.geocentric |
height | Alt. | Altitude of the observatory | m | pos.earth.altitude |
name | Name | Operator-chosen designation of the Observatory | N/A | meta.id;meta.main |
Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.
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