ARI Database for the Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars
The database ARIAPFS provides for the years 1998 and 1999 the
apparent places of the 'classical' 1535 fundamental stars
('Basic' FK stars),
which were published by the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut
from 1960 through 1999 in the annually
'printed volumes of the Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars'.
Starting with the APFS for the year 2000, the printed version of the APFS gives
the data for a few fundamental stars only, together with the information how to use these data.
The apparent places for many more fundamental stars are provided by this on-line database ARIAPFS via the Internet.
Since 2008 apparent places are also available via
the link to the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (VO),
as well as Greenwich Apparent Sidereal Time, Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time and Earth Rotation Angle.
For a short explanation of the content of the various files go to the INTRODUCTION;
an outline is given here:
Tables for 1998 and 1999 for 1535 FK5 stars and Sidereal Time ==> ARIAPFS QUERY FORM
Tables from 2000 to 2010 for 878 FK6 Part I stars + Polaris and Sidereal Time ==> ARIAPFS QUERY FORM
Apparent and Intermediate Places for 878 FK6 Part I stars + 3272 FK6 Part III stars ==> VO COMPLIANT INTERFACE (App. Places FK6)
Apparent and Intermediate Places for more than 100000 Hipparcos stars ==> VO COMPLIANT INTERFACE (App. Places HIP)
Greenwich Apparent Sidereal Time, Greenwich Mean Sid. Time, Earth Rotation Angle ==> VO COMPLIANT INTERFACE (GAST, GMST, ERA)
