Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

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ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

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Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . ... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The application is designed to perform high-accuracy geographic referencing and calculate geographic coordinates of satellite data using orbital data. ... The program performs conversion of satellite images into conic or equidistant projection and overlays the coordinate grid over it. ... When necessary the program allows for setting control points for correction of the reference. Shareware version (APT NOAA data processing) . ...

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J2000.0 coordinates -- source coordinates in J2000.0 epoch: right ascension and declination. Currently, the proper motion is assumed to be zero for all sources.

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