Real*8 SRA0 B1950 Right Ascension (radians) Real*8 SDEC0 B1950 Declination (radians) Character*2 IS Spectral type (2 characters) Integer*2 MAG V Magnitude * 100 Real*4 XRPM R.A. proper motion (radians per year) Real*4 XDPM Dec. proper motion (radians per year)Each catalog entry in PPMra contains 32 bytes with the following information:
Real*4 XNO Catalog number of star Real*8 SRA0 B1950 Right Ascension (radians) Real*8 SDEC0 B1950 Declination (radians) Character*2 IS Spectral type (2 characters) Integer*2 MAG V Magnitude * 100 Real*4 XRPM R.A. proper motion (radians per year) Real*4 XDPM Dec. proper motion (radians per year)Sample Entries
The first and last entries in the PPM catalog file are:
PPM B1950 Equatorial Coordinates Magnitude run 8/ 2/1993 1 23 57 33.426 82 49 38.27 11.30 K5 378910 23 56 49.889 -87 05 19.42 9.70The first and last entries in the RA-sorted PPMra catalog file are:
PPMra B1950 Equatorial Coordinates Magnitude run 8/ 2/1993 208270 0 00 00.153 -10 59 43.67 9.30 K2 24934 23 59 59.694 54 16 26.21 8.70 F0