A project of a new photographic catalogue of positions and proper motions of stars of the Southern Sky

Abstract

The reference photographic catalogue of the southern sky (RPC) will be a basis for investigations in the fields of astrometry, stellar astronomy, geodesy, space studies etc. in the southern hemisphere. It will be a catalogue of high precision, containing both bright and faint stars, reliably connected to the fundamental catalogue and giving an inertial coordinate system for a wide range of southern stars. The RPC will be an extension of the Goloseevo Plan (1) for the southern hemisphere. However, our project has its own peculiarities, mainly because there is no AGK3 type catalogue of the southern sky for the present epoch.