Original Catalog | Coverage (sq. deg) | Number of Objects | Description | Telescope | Instrument | Passbands | Reference information | Notes |
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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 | 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 2.4.1.1 | All-Sky | 2,516,066,427 | GSC 2.3 + GAIA + 2MASS + SDSSdr13 + VISTAdr2 + VSTdr3 | Opg, Jpg, Vpg, Fpg, Epg, Npg, G, B, V, u, g, r, i, z, Z, Y, J, H, Ks | release for PPS | |||
GSC 2.4.1.2 | All-Sky | 3,486,776,393 | GSC 2.4.1.1 + PS1best + ALLWISE + SMSSdr1 + GALEX + ultraVISTA | Opg, Jpg, Vpg, Fpg, Epg, Npg, G, B, V, u, g, r, i, z, Z, Y, J, H, Ks, FUV, NUV, W1, W2, W3, W4 | ||||
GAIA dr1 | All-Sky | 1,142,679,769 | G | |||||
UCAC5 | All-Sky | 107,758,513 | all are GAIA sources; provides additional kinematic data | |||||
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 | 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 (planned) | 46,270,162 | VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy Survey | VISTA | VIRCAM | Z,Y,J,H,Ks | http://www.eso.org/rm/api/v1/public/releaseDescriptions/41 | |
VISTA - UltraVISTA dr3 | 0.75 | 433,547 | Deep/Ultra-Deep Near-IR Survey of the COSMOS Field | VISTA | VIRCAM | Y,J,H,Ks,NB118 | not scheduled to be added | |
VST - KIDS dr3 | 1500 | 48,736,590 | Kilo-Degree Survey | VST | OMEGACAM | u, g, r, i | ||
VST - ATLAS dr3 | 4500 | 105,132,174 | VST | OMEGACAM | u, g, r, i, z | |||
PanSTARRS dr1 | 30,000 | 1,919,106,885 | PanSTARRS | PS1 | PS1 | g, r, i, z, y, w | https://confluence.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS/Pan-STARRS1+data+archive+home+page | 'best' catalog with ndetections>=2 |
ALLWISE | All-Sky | 747,634,026 | w1, w2, w3, w4 | |||||
GALEX | All-Sky | 82,992,086 | fuv, nuv | AIS | ||||
UHS dr1 | 12,700 (dr1) 17,900 (final) | UKIRT Hemisphere Survey | UKIRT | WFCAM | J, K | https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09975 | not yet scheduled to be added. DR1 does not include existing UKIDSS (which will be merged) or K-band data. | |
VISTA - VIKING dr3 | 1350 | 73,747,647 | VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy Survey | VISTA | VIRCAM | Z,Y,J,H,Ks | not yet scheduled for addition/update | |
SMSS dr1 | 17,200 | 285,159,194 | SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey | Skymapper | u,v,g,r,i,z | http://skymapper.anu.edu.au/ | ||
ATLAS refcat | All-Sky | 992637834 | Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) (GAIAdr2 + PanSTARRSdr1 + SkyMapper dr1+ APASS + Tycho2 + Yale Bright Star Catalog | compilation | compilation | https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09157 |