Bonner Durchmusterung

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Bonner Durchmusterung is a 19th-century astronomical star catalog that systematically surveyed and recorded the positions and magnitudes of hundreds of thousands of stars in the northern sky.

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Bonner Durchmusterung star catalogue 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century scientific project
astronomical catalog
star catalog
catalogCode BD NERFINISHED
compiledBy Adalbert Krüger NERFINISHED
Eduard Schönfeld NERFINISHED
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander NERFINISHED
coordinateSystem equatorial coordinates
countryOfOrigin Germany
Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED
coversRegion northern sky
dataType declination
right ascension
visual magnitude
declinationRange +90 degrees to -1 degree
endTime 1861
epoch 1855.0
era 19th century
field astronomy
followedBy Cordoba Durchmusterung NERFINISHED
Südliche Durchmusterung NERFINISHED
hasAbbreviation BD NERFINISHED
hasPart Bonner Durchmusterung North NERFINISHED
influenced BD star designation system
Henry Draper Catalogue NERFINISHED
language German
locationOfWork Bonn Observatory NERFINISHED
magnitudeLimit about 9.5
mainSubject stars
stellar magnitudes
stellar positions
namedAfter Bonn NERFINISHED
notation BD +DD NNNN NERFINISHED
numberOfStars approximately 324000
observatory Bonn Observatory NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1859
1862
publisher Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte zu Bonn
relatedWork Cape Photographic Durchmusterung NERFINISHED
Cordoba Durchmusterung NERFINISHED
Südliche Durchmusterung NERFINISHED
significance first large-scale systematic survey of northern stars
standard reference for stellar positions in late 19th century
startTime 1852
usedFor astrometry
reference catalog for positional astronomy
usesInstrument 7.5-cm refractor
usesMethod visual meridian circle observations

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Henry Draper Catalogue precededBy Bonner Durchmusterung
Friedrich Argelander knownFor Bonner Durchmusterung
Friedrich Argelander notableWork Bonner Durchmusterung
this entity surface form: Bonner Durchmusterung star catalogue