NLTT catalogue

The New Luyten catalogue of stars with proper motions larger than Two Tenths of an arcsecond (NLTT) is a collection of stars on more than 800 Palomar Proper Motion Survey plates found to have relative annual proper motions exceeding 0.18 arcsec. The motions have been determined by Luyten and his coworkers by either hand blinking and measuring or with the automated- computerized scanner and measuring machine built by Control Data Corporation and located at the University of Minnesota. The new catalog replaces the LTT Catalogues (Luyten 1957, 1961, 1962), wherein stars in the Bruce Proper Motion Survey discovered to have motions exceeding 0.2 arcsec had been compiled. For further information on the NLTT Catalogue itself, including discussions of positional errors, estimation of magnitudes, star designations used in the catalog, completeness, and accuracy of the measured motions, the introduction to the published NLTT (see Volume 1) should be consulted.