Basic Catalogue information

Original Catalog	coverage	no.objects	Description	Telescope	Instrument	Passbands	Reference information	Notes
GSC 2.3.4	All-Sky	1,020,503,745	All-Sky Photographic surveys	Palomar schmidt, AAO schmidt	photographic plates	Opg, Jpg, Vpg, Fpg, Epg, Npg B,V, J, H, Ks	http://gsss.stsci.edu/Catalogs/GSC/GSC2/GSC2.htm http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008AJ....136..735L&db_key=AST&link_type=ABSTRACT&high=487ab2c58d25337	Includes bright stars from Sky2000v4 and Tycho2 and some new 2MASS stars
GSC 2.4.0	All-Sky	945,443,930	GSC 2.3.4 with 2MASS only objects removed and GAIA astrometry transferred			Opg, Jpg, Vpg, Fpg, Epg, Npg B, V
GSC 2.4.1.x	All-Sky	1,757,241,273	GSC 2.3 +GAIA +2MASS +SDSS			Opg, Jpg, Vpg, Fpg, Epg, Npg, G, B, V, u, g, r, i, z,, J, H, Ks		interim release for PPS dev will be replaced late september (adding VISTA/VST surveys)
GAIA dr1	All-Sky	1,142,679,769				G
UCAC5	All-Sky	107,758,513
APASS	All-Sky	61,176,401	AAVSO Photometric All Sky Survey			B, V, g, r, i	https://www.aavso.org/apass
2MASS	All-Sky	496,911,362				J, H, Ks		Includes the PSC, XSC, and 6x fields
SDSS dr13	14,555 square degrees	469,050,976	Sloan Digital Sky Survey			u, g, r, i, z	http://www.sdss.org/dr13/
VISTA - VHS dr4	20,000	1,155,634,198	VISTA Hemisphere Survey	VISTA	VIRCAM	Z,Y,J,H,Ks
VISTA - VIKING dr2	1500	46,270,162	VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy Survey	VISTA	VIRCAM	Z,Y,J,H,Ks
VISTA - UltraVISTA	0.75	433,547
VST - KIDS	1500	48,736,590				u, g, r, i
VST - ATLAS dr3	4500	105,132,174		VST	OMEGACAM	u, g, r, i, z
PanSTARRS dr1	30,000					g, r, i, z, y, w
WISE	All-Sky					w1, w2, w3, w4
GALEX	All-Sky					fuv, nuv

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