United States Naval Observatory B1.0 (USNO-B1) Overview
USNO-B1 Overview IRSA Catalog Search Tool: USNO-B1

Overview

USNO-B is an all-sky catalog that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,042,618,261 objects derived from 3,643,201,733 separate observations. The data were obtained from scans of 7435 Schmidt plates taken for the various sky surveys from 1949 to 2002.

If you use USNO-B1, please cite both Monet et al. (2003) and the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26131/IRSA18.

Data Set Characteristics

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Catalog United States Naval Observatory B1.0 Catalog

USNO-B1 Documentation

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