The Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog (AGK) is an astrometric star catalogue. Compilation for the first version, AGK1, was started in 1867, directed by Friedrich Argelander and published between 1890 (three sections from the observatories at Oslo, Helsinki, and Neuchâtel) and 1924 (final section: Algiers observatory), listing 200 000 stars down to ninth magnitude.[1]
The second version, AGK2, was started in the 1920s, and published between 1951 and 1958 using photographic data obtained from the Bonn and Hamburg Observatories.
The third version, AGK3, was started in 1956 and published in 1975. It contains 183,145 stars north of declination –2° with mean positional errors of ±0.13" and mean proper motion errors of ±0.009"/year.
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References
- ↑ Schmeidler, Felix. Geschichte der Astronomischen Gesellschaft (in German). Astronomische Gesellschaft. pp. 45–46.
- DavidDarling.info Archived 2017-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Astro.it
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