PPM STAR CATALOG - THE 90000 STARS SUPPLEMENT

The PPM Star Catalogue is the successor of the SAO Catalogue. It conta ins precise positions and proper motions of 378 910 stars on the whole sky in the J2000 / FK5 coordinate system. The 90 000 Stars Supplement presented here provides astrometric data of similar quality for about 90 000 additional stars on the southern hemisphere. Magnetic tapes co ntaining PPM and its Supplement can be obtained from the Centre de Don nees Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France and the Astronomical Da ta Centre at Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, U.S.A.