The Amateur Sky Survey

The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) is a loose collaboration of amateur and professional astronomers led by Michael Richmond.

Catalog

The TASS tenxcat catalog is a star catalog that includes approximately 367,000 stars near the celestial equator . The catalog is a result of the The Amateur Sky Survey project (TASS). Technically, it is based on the Mark III camera system from Ton Droege.

• For the stars there are about 30 measurements each in the V, I and R bands.
• Its astronomical accuracy is 1–2 arcsec .

Web links

• Michael Richmond: TN 0056: Description of TASS tenxcat catalog
• Single star selection from the catalog on the page http://www.tass-survey.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Richmond et. al: TASS Mark III Photometric Survey of the Celestial Equator . In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 112, No. 769, 2000. arxiv : astro-ph / 9910267 . doi : 10.1086 / 316527 .
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