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Catalogue search information

The catalogue engine can return information on objects from the catalogues listed below.

Catalogue	Description
SUN_AND_MOON	Information on the Sun and Moon (2 objects).
PLANETS	Information on the major planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (7 objects).
DWARF_PLANETS	Information on dwarf planets: Pluto, Ceres and Eris (3 objects).
NGCIC_NAMES	Common names for some objects in the New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue (121 objects).
STETSON	Stetson Photometric Standard Fields (152 objects).
HIP	The Hipparcos catalogue (118218 objects).
PGC	The Principal Galaxy Catalogue (73198 objects).
ASTEROID	Current asteroid data, updated daily from Lowell Observatory at www.lowell.edu (534304 objects).
YALE	The Yale Bright Star Catalogue (10439 objects).
COMET	Observable comets, updated daily from the IAU Minor Planet Center at www.cfa.harvard.edu (202 objects).
NGCIC	NGC 2000.0, the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), incorporating the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue (13226 objects).
YALE_NAMES	Common names for some bright stars in the Yale catalogue (93 objects).
MESSIER	The Messier Catalogue (110 objects).
EXTRAS	Additional objects, included by request (12 objects).
APTA	Specific fields of interest to telescope-net staff (1 objects).

Additional information on the catalogue engine:

Catalogue engine revision:	120
Data last refreshed on:	Tue Sep 7 03:11:43 2010 UTC
Server listening on	UNIX domain socket (INET domain socket not configured).
Object maximum cache time	10800 seconds
Total objects loaded:	750088
Total queries received since last refresh:	11797
Queries returned from the cache:	11732 (99.4 per cent)