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General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes

(GCTP, General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes)
(1950s catalog of stars with parallax measures)

The General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes (or General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes or GCTP) is a catalog originally published in the 1950s, with a fourth edition published in 1995. The catalog includes roughly 9000 stars, aiming to incorporate any that had a measured parallax.


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Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_catalogue#GCTP
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001475326
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995gcts.book.....V/abstract
PrefixExample  
GCTPGCTP 3242.00 
PLXPLX 695 

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