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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).]