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Cape Photographic Dürchmusterung (CPD)
A southern hemisphere extension of the Bonner Dürchmusterung and the first star catalogue produced from photographic measurements of the sky. The photographs were taken by the Scottish astronomer David Gill (1843-1914) at the Cape Observatory, South Africa, between 1895 and 1900, and the star positions on them measured by Jacobus Kapteyn in the Netherlands. The three-volume catalog, containing 454,877 stars down to 10th magnitude, between declination -19° and -90° (the south celestial pole), was published in 1896 to 1900.
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