Re: Format of newvar.cat

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

  Paul asked:

> I down loaded newvar.cat, but what is the data format? First
> colum is epoch I guess, then RA, Dec, and then name and comments.
> But how is the RA and Dec encoded? I had a look, but could not
> find anything.

  The "newvar.cat" catalog lives at

    ftp://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/others/TmzV/newvar.cat

Here are the first few lines:

2000 003852.95 +453350.3 TmzV64 12.6 <15.0p ? 
2000 004937.90 +505641.4 TmzV63 10.9 12.9p ? 
2000 010730.07 +292613.7 TmzV780 10.8 11.6p SR: 

  I'd bet that

     col 1: equinox of position
     col 2: Right Ascension, in format HHMMSS.ss
     col 3: Declination, in format +DDMMSS.s
     col 4: name
     col 5: V-band magnitude?  brightest magnitude?
     col 5: photographic magnitude?  faintest magnitude?
     col 6: type of variable

  I couldn't find a page describing the format, either, 
but these are my guesses.

                           Michael Richmond