Detailed Description of Catalogue VII/62A/

Url: http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?VII/62A/

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VII/62A   Morphological Cat. of Gal. (MCG)   (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+, 1962-1974)
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MORPHOLOGICAL CATALOG OF GALAXIES (MCG)
    Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., Krasnogorskaya A.A.: 1962
     <Part I (+90 to +45deg) Trudy Gosud. Astron. Inst. Sternberg 32>
    Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., Arhipova V.P.: 1964
     <Part II (+45 to +15 deg) Trudy Gosud. Astron. Inst. Sternberg 34>
    Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., Arhipova V.P.: 1963
     <Part III (+15 to -09 deg) Trudy Gosud. Astron. Inst. Sternberg 33>
    Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., Arhipova V.P.: 1968
     <Part IV (-09 to -33 deg) Trudy Gosud. Astron. Inst. Sternberg 38>
    =1962TrSht..32....1V        (SIMBAD/NED References)
    =1963TrSht..34....1V
    =1964TrSht..33....1V
    =1968TrSht..38....1V
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Morphology

Description:
    Please refer to the more complete documentation by Wayne H. Warren
    in file "adc.doc"

See also:
    <VII/100:> Part V (declination -33 to -45deg,
             published as Trudy Gosud. Astron. Inst. Sternberg 46, 1974)

File Summary:

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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

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ReadMe             80        .   This file
adc.doc            80      779   Documentation by Wayne H. Warren Jr.
mcg                67    29003   The MCG Catalogue, Vols 1-4

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Byte-by-byte Description of file: mcg

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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

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   1- 14  A14    ---     MCG      Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (MCG) number
      15  A1     ---     n_MCG    '*' if there is a note in the
                                    published version
  16- 24  A9     ---   OtherName  Catalog number in the NGC or IC
  25- 26  I2     h       RAh      Hours RA, equinox 1950.0
  27- 31  F5.2   min     RAm      Minutes RA, equinox 1950.0
      32  A1     ---     DE-      Sign Dec, equinox 1950.0
  33- 34  I2     deg     DEd      Degrees Dec, equinox 1950.0
  36- 37  I2     arcmin  DEm      Minutes Dec, equinox 1950.0
  39- 43  F5.2   mag     Mag      [6/21]? Photographic Magnitude
  44- 48  F5.1   arcmin MajAxisIn  ]0/500]? Diameter of the major axis,
                                    bright inner part
  49- 53  F5.1   arcmin MinAxisIn  ]0/500]? Diameter of the minor axis,
                                    bright inner part
  54- 59  F6.1   arcmin  MajAxis  ]0/1600]? Diameter of major axis,
                                    entire galaxy
  60- 64  F5.1   arcmin  MinAxis  ]0/500]? Diameter of minor axis,
                                    entire galaxy
      65  I1     ---     IntIn    []? [1/6] Intensity of inner region
                                    of the galaxy from 1 (completely black
                                    image) to 6 (image barely visible).
      66  I1     ---     IntOut   [1/6]? Intensity of outer region of the galaxy
      67  A1     ---     Incl     [1-5?] Inclination of the principle Plane
                                         from 1 (face on) to 5 (edge on).
                                         '?'= uncertainty.

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Historical Notes:
  * 18-Nov-1994:
    Compared to the "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 1 CD-ROM (1992),
    directory "nonstell/galaxies/mcg", the following errors have been
    corrected:
    - Misalignements in records 6734 10857 13382 25010
    - Errors in the "Incl" parameter for records
        3601(MCG+09-11-008) 4053(MCG+09-16-022) 6928(MCG+08-30-002)
        13323(MCG+04-06-049)
    - Error in "MajorAxis" parameter for record 19653(MCG+01-37-012)
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(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   18-Nov-1994

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