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COSMOS

COSMOS (COordinates, Sizes, Magnitudes, Orientations, and Shapes) is a plate scanning machine at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, which has been used to scan the whole southern sky (DEC < +2.5 deg.) from the IIIa-J and Short Red Surveys, and has led to an object catalog of several hundred million objects. During 1994 public access to the catalog will be provided through the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO). Retrieve the file cosmos_catalogue.lis from the directory aaoepp2.aao.gov.au:aao_obs (Drinkwater 1994) or contact M. Drinkwater (mjd@aaocbnu1.aao.gov.au). A new digitization of the southern sky survey using the SuperCOSMOS machine will give an even better quality object database, which is planned to be made available on CD-ROM by 1995. Contact H. T. MacGillivray (hmg@star.roe.ac.uk). [References: Yentis et al. (1992), MacGillivray (1992).]


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Sat Sep 10 12:52:44 MET DST 1994