The first US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog

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May 2000

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American Astronomical Society, 196th AAS Meeting, #53.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.759

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The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) project is a high precision, astrometric survey of stars having R magnitudes between 7th and 16th. The positional accuracy is 20 mas for stars between 9th and 14th, and 70 mas for fainter stars. This gives a density (stars per square degree) higher than that of the Guide Star Catalog (GSC), with an improvement in positional accuracy of about a factor of ten. Observations began in January 1998 at Cerro Tololo Inter--American Observatory (CTIO) using a five-element 0.2 meter astrograph equipped with a 4k by 4k CCD. The instrument will be moved north in early 2001, and full sky coverage is expected by early 2003. A preliminary catalog (UCAC1) of positions and proper motions of 27 million stars has been constructed which is available on CD-ROM from USNO. Observations between 13 Feb 1998 and 07 Nov 1999 are included with a total of over 79,000 CCD frames covering 80% of the Southern Hemisphere. The catalog is on the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), which is consistent with J2000. Proper motions of bright stars (V <= 12.5) were derived using a combination of ground-based astrometric catalogs, Hipparcos, and Tycho-2 positions, giving a typical error of 3 mas/yr. For the fainter stars the USNO A2.0 (Monet, 1998) was used as first epoch, with typical proper motion errors of 10 to 15 mas/yr. External comparisons with Tycho-2 and the Yale Southern Proper Motion (SPM) 2.0 data reveal systematic errors to be only on the 10 mas level.

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