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Guide Star Catalog

Index Guide Star Catalog

The Guide Star Catalog (GSC), also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog (HSTGC), is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars. [1]

18 relations: Astronomical Calculation Institute (Heidelberg University), Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog, Binary star, Cape Photographic Catalogue, Carte du Ciel, Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, Fine guidance sensor, Fine Guidance Sensor (HST), Heidelberg, Hipparcos, Hubble Guide Star Catalog – Astrographic Catalog/Tycho, Hubble Space Telescope, PPM Star Catalogue, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, Space Telescope Science Institute, Star catalogue, The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomical Calculation Institute (Heidelberg University)

The Astronomical Calculation Institute (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut; ARI) is a research institute in Heidelberg, Germany, dating from the 1700s.

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Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog

The Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog (AGK) is an astrometric star catalogue.

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Binary star

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter.

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Cape Photographic Catalogue

The Cape Photographic Catalogue (CPC) is a star catalogue containing 68,467 stars in the Southern Hemisphere whose declinations are either between −30° and −40° or between −52° and −90°.

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Carte du Ciel

The Carte du Ciel (literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of millions of stars as faint as 11th or 12th magnitude.

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Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg

The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) is a data hub which collects and distributes astronomical information.

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Fine guidance sensor

A fine guidance sensor (FGS) is an instrument on board a space telescope that provides high-precision pointing information as input to the observatory's attitude control systems.

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Fine Guidance Sensor (HST)

Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) for the Hubble Space Telescope is a system of three instruments used for pointing the telescope in space, and also for astrometry and its related sciences.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a college town in Baden-Württemberg situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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Hipparcos

Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993.

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Hubble Guide Star Catalog – Astrographic Catalog/Tycho

The Hubble Guide Star Catalog – Astrographic Catalog/Tycho (GSC-ACT) is an astronomical catalog.

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Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.

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PPM Star Catalogue

The PPM Star Catalogue (Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogue) is the successor of the SAO Catalogue.

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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue.

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Space Telescope Science Institute

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; in orbit since 1990) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; scheduled to be launched in March 2021).

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Star catalogue

A star catalogue (Commonwealth English) or star catalog (American English), is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars.

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The Astronomical Journal

The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society and currently published by IOP Publishing.

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The Astrophysical Journal

The Astrophysical Journal, often abbreviated ApJ (pronounced "ap jay") in references and speech, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.

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Redirects here:

Guide Star Catalog II, Guide Star Catalogue, Guide Star Catalogue II, HSTGC, Hubble Guide Star Catalog, Hubble Space Telescope Guide Catalog, Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_Star_Catalog

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