Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
id:
smithsonian-astrophysical-observatory-star-catalog-322-2111856
title:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
text:
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue, created by Smithsonian Institution, a research institute. It was published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1966 and contains 258,997 stars. The catalogue was
compiled from various previous astrometric catalogues, and contains only stars to about ninth magnitude for which accurate proper motions were known. Names in the SAO catalogue start with the letters SAO, followed by a number. The number
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Astrometric star catalogue
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory_Star_Catalog
date created:
date modified:
2022-01-14T14:57:47Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q984158","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q984158"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14