Strasbourg Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae

The original machine-readable version of the Strasbourg Catalog of
Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker et al., 1981) was supplied by the
Centre de Donnees Stellaires, and has been reformatted as described in
the ADC document.

The aim of this catalogue is to provide a list of data concerning all
known planetary nebulae (PN).  The total number is 1455 including 1036
listed in Perek and Kohoutek (PK) catalogue (1967), and including
including doubtful cases.  The additions come from Sanduleak (1975,
1976), Acker and Marcout (1977), Weinberger (1977), Peterson (1977),
Kohoutek (1978), Stephenson (1978), Allen (1979), Murdin et al.  (1979),
Van den Bergh (1979), Purgathofer and Weinberger (1980).

Source Catalog Reference:  Acker, A., Marcout, J., Ochsenbein, F.:
1980, Centre de Donnees Stellaires Bull.  No. 18, 84.

Documentation Reference:  Hill, R. S. 1983, SSD-T-1-0338-0097-83

A copy of the documentation should accompany any computer-readable
version of the catalog.  The FITS Table header(s) in this file only give
the basic format of the catalog.  Please refer to the documentation or
source reference for a more detailed discussion of the data.


XTENSION= 'TABLE   '           / Table extension
BITPIX  =                    8 / Character data
NAXIS   =                    2 / Simple 2-D matrix
NAXIS1  =                   52 / Number of characters per record
NAXIS2  =                 1455 / Number of records in the table
PCOUNT  =                    0 / No "random" parameters
GCOUNT  =                    1 / Only one group
TFIELDS =                   16 / Number of data fields per record
EXTNAME = 'PLN     '           / Strasbourg Galactic Planetary Nebulae
AUTHOR  = 'Acker et al.'      
REFERENC= '1980 CDS Bull.'    
DATE    = '01/08/91'           / Date FITS table verified (dd/mm/yy)
 
TTYPE1  = 'PK      '           / Perek-Kohoutek (PK) number
TBCOL1  =                    1 / Start column
TFORM1  = 'A9      '           / Fortran format
 
TTYPE2  = 'RAH     '           / Hours RA, 1950.0
TBCOL2  =                   10 / Start column
TFORM2  = 'I2      '           / Fortran format
TUNIT2  = 'h       '           / Units are hours
 
TTYPE3  = 'RAM     '           / Minutes RA, 1950.0
TBCOL3  =                   13 / Start column
TFORM3  = 'F5.2    '           / Fortran format
TUNIT3  = 'min     '           / Units are minutes of time
 
TTYPE4  = 'DecSign '           / Sign Dec, 1950
TBCOL4  =                   19 / Start column
TFORM4  = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
 
TTYPE5  = 'DecD    '           / Degrees Dec, 1950.0
TBCOL5  =                   20 / Start column
TFORM5  = 'I2      '           / Fortran format
TUNIT5  = 'deg     '           / Units are degrees
 
TTYPE6  = 'DecM    '           / Minutes Dec, 1950.0
TBCOL6  =                   23 / Start column
TFORM6  = 'F4.1    '           / Fortran format
TUNIT6  = 'arcmin  '           / Units are minutes of arc
 
TTYPE7  = 'V_Limit '           / '>' if V is a lower limit
TBCOL7  =                   28 / Start column
TFORM7  = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
 
TTYPE8  = 'V       '           / Visual magnitude
TBCOL8  =                   29 / Start column
TFORM8  = 'F4.1    '           / Fortran format
TUNIT8  = 'mag     '           / Units are magnitudes
TNULL8  = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE9  = 'Morph_Flag'         / Morphology flag
TBCOL9  =                   34 / Start column
TFORM9  = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
TNULL9  = '        '           / Null value
COMMENT Morph_Flag: '<' for star-like appearance, '>' for fainter spherical
COMMENT Morph_Flag: envelope, or else blank.
 
TTYPE10 = 'Diam    '           / Angular diameter of brightest part
TBCOL10 =                   35 / Start column
TFORM10 = 'I3      '           / Fortran format
TUNIT10 = 'arcsec  '           / Units are seconds of arc
TNULL10 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE11 = 'RadVel  '           / Mean radial velocity
TBCOL11 =                   39 / Start column
TFORM11 = 'I4      '           / Fortran format
TUNIT11 = 'km/s    '           / Units are kilometers per second
TNULL11 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE12 = 'StarMag_Limit'      / '>' if StarMag is a lower limit
TBCOL12 =                   44 / Start column
TFORM12 = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
TNULL12 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE13 = 'StarMag '           / Central star magnitude
TBCOL13 =                   45 / Start column
TFORM13 = 'F4.1    '           / Fortran format
TUNIT13 = 'mag     '           / Units are magnitudes
TNULL13 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE14 = 'Var_Flag'           / 'V' if central star is variable
TBCOL14 =                   49 / Start column
TFORM14 = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
TNULL14 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE15 = 'ExpVel_Limit'       / ExpVel limit flag, '<', '>', or blank
TBCOL15 =                   50 / Start column
TFORM15 = 'A1      '           / Fortran format
TNULL15 = '        '           / Null value
 
TTYPE16 = 'ExpVel  '           / Nebula expansion velocity
TBCOL16 =                   51 / Start column
TFORM16 = 'I2      '           / Fortran format
TUNIT16 = 'km/s    '           / Units are kilometers per second
TNULL16 = '        '           / Null value
 
END
