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Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue

(CMC)
(series of astrometric catalogs from 19th century on)

The Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue (CMC) is an astrometric/photometric catalog including more than a 100 million stars, assembled using data from the now-decommissioned Carlsberg Meridian Telescope of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) in the Canary Islands. Fifteen editions were published, the most recent one in 2013.


(catalog,stars,astrometry)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsberg_Meridian_Telescope
http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/vocats/cmc15/
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999cmcp.book....../abstract
PrefixExample  
CMCCMC 804951 

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