Note: USNO-A2.0 contains 526,280,881 sources, and is based on a re-reduction of the Precision Measuring Machine (PMM) scans from POSS-I O and E plates (>=-18°) and SRC-J and ESO-R plates (<=-20°). USNO-A2.0 was created by Dave Monet () and collaborators at Flagstaff Station, U.S. Naval Observatory.
The major difference between USNO-A2.0 and its previous version USNO-A1.0 is that A1.0 used the Guide Star Catalog as its reference frame whereas A2.0 uses the ICRF as realized by the USNO ACT catalog (Urban et al. 1997). The VizieR search engine uses an on-line compressed version (3.6Gbytes) which was generated at CDS.

Full	_r arcsec	_RAJ2000 "h:m:s"	_DEJ2000 "d:m:s"	USNO-A2.0	RAJ2000 deg	DEJ2000 deg	ACTflag	Mflag	Bmag mag	Rmag mag	Epoch yr
1	3.596	05 23 51.84288	-24 42 07.6824	0600-02328281	080.966012	-24.702134			15.7	16.0	1982.975
2	25.564	05 23 52.37016	-24 41 40.5204	0600-02328381	080.968209	-24.694589			18.8	18.0	1982.975

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Full	_r arcsec	_RAJ2000 "h:m:s"	_DEJ2000 "d:m:s"	GSC	RAJ2000 deg	DEJ2000 deg	PosErr arcsec	Pmag mag	e_ mag	n_	Class	Plate	Epoch yr
1	17.76	05 23 51.0624	-24 42 19.836	0647900694	080.96276	-24.70551	0.5	13.03	0.40	0	3	049Y	1983.042
2	17.93	05 23 51.0600	-24 42 20.016	0647900694	080.96275	-24.70556	0.3	12.80	0.40	0	3	04NM	1980.105

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