| Kepler Input Catalog
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The Kepler Mission, is specifically designed to survey our region of
the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller
planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the
billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.
The KIC, or Kepler Input Catalog, is the primary source of information
about objects observed as part of the ground-based Kepler Spectral
Classification Program (SCP) in preparation for the selection of
Kepler PI and GO targets. The KIC lists objects down to 21mag, but
it is not complete to this limit. Light from only about 1/3 of these
objects falls on the Kepler CCD detector. A small number of the KIC
objects are calibration objects distributed across the sky. For this
reason the full KIC should never be used for Kepler target selection.
A detailed description of the
ascii entry format is available.
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[WCSTools skic]