Astrometric Data

Astrometric data kept in BDA concern (1950) coordinates, absolute and relative proper motions and rectangular (x, y) positions. The latter are only meant to plot cluster charts, andf not to compute proper motions.

The names of the commands working with astrometric datatypes are usually identical to the datatypes by sake of simplicity. The meaning of the various options can be obtained with the command option.

The datatype corresponding to a given kind of observations can be learned with the command dtype.

The field structure of the records for each photometric data file can be queried with the command field.

The names of the file associated to a given type of data can be found with the comand nfile.