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XZ Catalog of Zodiacal Stars

(XZ)
(1977 catalog of stars near the ecliptic)

The XZ Catalog of Zodiacal Stars, originally assembled in 1977 by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO), is a catalog of stars within about 6° of the ecliptic (i.e., the zodiac), providing position-information on stars that undergo lunar occultations. The most recent update includes stars to magnitude +12.


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Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Observatory
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003yCat.1291....0H/abstract
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/I/291
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XZXZ 89806 

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