VII/216         H-{alpha} emission regions in Southern Milky Way (Rodgers+ 1960)
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A catalogue of H-{alpha} emission regions in the Southern Milky Way
     Rodgers A.W., Campbell C.T., Whiteoak J.B.
    <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 121, 103 (1960)>
    =1960MNRAS.121..103R
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ADC_Keywords: Nebulae ; H II regions

Description:
    The Catalogue of Rodgers, Cambell, and Whiteoak (RCW),  was the result
    of a survey of emission nebulae carried out at Mt. Stromlo Observatory
    from  December 1957 to April 1959.  The entire region of the Milky Way
    southward  of the Palomar sky survey with  a latitude of plus or minus
    15 degrees of  the galactic equator  was photographed in  the light of
    hydrogen  alpha with comparison plates obtained in yellow light.  This
    work roughly complements the Sharpless (Sh2, see Cat. <VII/20>) survey
    published in 1959.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
rcw.dat         80        181    The Catalogue (tables 2 and 3 of the paper)
notes.dat       80        143    Notes to individual  nebulae
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See also:
    VII/20 : Catalogue of HII Regions (Sharpless 1959)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: rcw.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  3  I3    ---     RCW       RCW id number
   6- 10  F5.1  deg     GLON      Galactic Longitude (l) new system
  13- 17  F5.1  deg     GLAT      Galactic Latitude  (b) new system
  20- 21  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension B1950 (hours)
  23- 26  F4.1  min     RAm       Right Ascension B1950 (minutes)
      28  A1    ---     DE-       Declination B1950 (sign)
  29- 30  I2    deg     DEd       Declination B1950 (degrees)
  32- 33  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination B1950 (minutes)
  36- 38  I3    arcmin  MajAxis   Major Axis Size (arc minutes)
  40- 42  I3    arcmin  MinAxis   Minor Axis Size (arc minutes)
  45- 46  A2    ---     Br       *[vbmf ] Brightness on H-alpha plates
  48- 79  A32   ---     IDs      *Cross Reference Identifications
      80  A1    ---     Rem      *[*R] Note detailed in file "notes.dat"
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Note on Br: the symbols are b for bright, m for medium, f for faint,
     or vb for very bright.

Note on IDs: the cross identifications refer to the designations
     from the following papers:
     BBW - B.J. Bok, M.J. Bester and C.M. Wade
           Daedalus 86, 9 (1955HarRe.416....1B)
     E   - S. Sharpless, 1953ApJ...118..362S (Sh1)
     G   - C.S. Gum, Mem. R.A.S. 67, 155 (1955MmRAS..67..155G)
     HS  - V.F Hase and G.A. Shaijn
           Bull. Crimea. Ast. Obs., 15, 11 (1955)
     IC    J.L.E. Dryer, Index Catalogue(1895) and Second Index Catalog(1908)
           London, 1962 Royal Astronomical Society
     NGC   J.L.E. Dryer, New General Catalogue (1888)
           London, 1962 Royal Astronomical Society

Note on Rem:
     The flag is an asterisk (*) for a remark due to a formatting problem,
     and R is for a note in the original publication. Both notes are in the
     file notes.dat
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: notes.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  3  I3    ---     RCW       RCW id number, repeated when several lines
       5  A1    ---     add       [*] for a note due to formatting problems.
   6- 80  A75   ---     Text      Text of note
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Note to the electronic version (by Raymond Bruton, pam99999@swbell.net):
    The purpose of this version of the RCW Catalogue is a computer
    readable file for the plotting of star charts. No more modern data was
    incorporated into the data table. Typographical errors should be
    brought to the attention of the editor. Any gross errors in the
    original publication should likewise be reported. The editor
    gratefully acknowledges the original work of Rodgers, Cambell, and
    Whiteoak under the direction of the late Bart J. Bok. The NASA
    Astrophysics Data System maintained at Harvard University was
    indispensable for checking against the original work. The Royal
    Astronomcal Society of the United Kingdom is thanked for making the
    copyrighted original available to the NASA Astrophysics Data System
    and indirectly to the editor.

Acknowledgements:
    It is a pleasure to thank Raymond Bruton, Fort Worth, Texas (USA)
    (e-mail pam99999@swbell.net) who prepared the catalogue and kindly
    forwarded it to CDS in May 2000.

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(End)      Raymond Bruton [Fort Worth], Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]    03-May-2000