OpenCosmos

Catalogs

Currently seven catalogs are available with OpenCosmos. You can find a short description and where to get them below.

Exoplanets (Download)

This catalog is a carefully constructed compilation of 3 catalogs :http://exoplanet.eu/, http://exoplanets.org/ and http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm. It provides parameters such as orbit elements, discovery method, star system caracteristic... about known exoplanets.

Messiers (Download)

The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles" ("Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters"), originally published in 1771, with the last addition (based on Messier's observations) made in 1966, which finally includes 110 objects. More inforamtions about theses objects can be found here : http://seds.org/MESSIER/

Coordinates of Galactic planetary nebulae (Kerber+, 2003) (Download)

These catalog provides informations about planetary nebulae.

Astorb (Download)

Astorb is a catalog that contains informations (such as orbital parameters, ephemeris uncertainties...) for all numbered asteroids and the vast majority of unnumbered asteroids. It is available on http://www.naic.edu/~nolan/astorb.html.

Hipparcos (Download)

Hipparcos was a scientific mission of the European Space Agency. A satellite was launched in space to measure star positions, distance from us, parallaxes and proper motions. The result was published in three star catalogs : Hipparcos (120 000 stars), Tycho and Tycho 2 (2,5 millions stars). All catalogue data are available online from the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/Cats.htx).

CometSsd (Download)

A catalog with the most commons comets is available on the Internet at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/ (a web site maintained by Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and JPL's Solar System Dynamics Groups).

2dfgrs (Download) and 2dfqso (Download)

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is a major spectroscopic survey taking full advantage of the unique capabilities of the 2dF facility built by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The 2dFGRS is integrated with the 2dF QSO survey. The 2dFGRS obtained spectra for 245591 objects, mainly galaxies. Data base is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.mso.anu.edu.au The web site for 2dFGRS is http://www2.aao.gov.au/~TDFgg/, the one for 2dFQSO is http://www.2dfquasar.org/.

V8k (Download)

The V8k catalog (velocity < 8,000 km\s) is based on redshift surveys and provide alternative descriptions of the large scale structure in the region of interest. More informations can be found at http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu/index.html. You can also get this catalog from the Extragalactic Distance Database at the same adress.

Sdss (Download)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky and perform a redshift survey of galaxies, quasars and stars. The SDSS used a dedicated 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico, equipped with two powerful special-purpose instruments. See http://www.sdss.org/ for more informations.