Investigators using data from
this site are requested to include these acknowledgments in any publications
as appropriate.
The Guide
Star Catalogue-II is a joint project of the Space
Telescope Science Institute and the Osservatorio
Astronomico di Torino. Space Telescope Science Institute is operated
by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, for
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration under contract NAS5-26555. The participation of
the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino is supported by the Italian
Council for Research in Astronomy. Additional support is provided
by European Southern Observatory, Space
Telescope European Coordinating Facility, the International GEMINI project
and the European
Space Agency Astrophysics Division.
The Guide
Star Catalog-I was produced at the Space
Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant. These
data are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt
Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK
Schmidt Telescope.
The Guide
Star Photometry Catalog-II is produced by the Space
Telescope Science Institute and the Osservatorio
Astronomico di Torino. Additional funding to STScI was provided
by the International GEMINI project,
and to OATo by ESO/ST-ECF under contracts 56815/ECF/99/6302/NKA
and 56186/ECF/99/6303/NKA, and by. These data are based on CCD
observations obtained primarily at the ESO-LaSilla Observatory,
the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and the Kitt Peak
National Observatory.
The Guide
Star Photometry Catalog-I was produced at the Space
Telescope Science Institute operated by the Association of
Universities for Research in Astronomy, for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration . These data are based
on photoelectric observations obtained at the University of Arizona
Observatories; and at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
and the Sacramento Peak Observatory, both operated by the Association
of Universities for Research in Astronomy, for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The Digitized
Sky Survey was produced at the Space
Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166.
The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained
using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK
Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present
compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions.
The National
Geographic Society - Palomar
Observatory Sky Atlas (POSS-I) was made by the California
Institute of Technology with grants from the National Geographic
Society.
The
Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California
Institute of Technology with funds from the National
Science Foundation, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Geographic Society,
the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel
Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman
Kodak Corporation. The
Oschin Schmidt Telescope is operated by the California Institute of
Technology and Palomar Observatory.
The
UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal
Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering
Research Council (later the UK Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter
by the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension
(together known as the SERC-J), the near-IR plates (SERC-I), as well
as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES)
were
all
taken with
the
UK
Schmidt telescope at the AAO.
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