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Washington Double Star Catalog

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These files are no longer updated. This is an archival website for the 2001.0 edition of the Washington Double Star Catalog. The last major update to this site was 26 September 2001 by Brian Mason.
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is used to identify the observer who reported the information. For example, HEI is used for the German astronomer
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Mason, Brian D.; Wycoff, Gary L.; Hartkopf, William I.; Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Worley, Charles E. (2001).
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Douglass, Geoffrey G.; Corbin, Thomas E.; Mason, Brian D. (August 1998). "Charles Edmund Worley".
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and has entries for (as of June 2017) 141,743 pairs of double stars. The catalog also includes
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The distribution of the objects of the catalog over the firmament is fairly even.
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The catalog has since been augmented by many measurements, mainly from the
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components will be represented by entries in the catalog for
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The database used to construct the WDS originated at
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catalog
double stars
United States Naval Observatory
magnitudes
proper motions
spectral types
multiple stars
Lick Observatory
Index Catalog of Visual Double Stars
Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues
speckle interferometry
W. D. Heintz
Aitken Double Star Catalogue
Burnham Double Star Catalogue
United States Naval Observatory
Bibcode
1998Obs...118..250D
"The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog"
Bibcode
2001AJ....122.3466M
doi
10.1086/323920
The WDS at the US Naval Observatory
Mirror of the WDS at Georgia State University
The Washington Double Star Catalog
VizieR
StelleDoppie
Categories

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