Skiff Spectral Catalog

Published by MAST: Mikulski Archive at Space Telescope | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: October 23, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-10

This service provides access to a modified version of the Skiff Spectral catalog.The full catalog is available from VizieR. The table includes the standardspectral classifications (with spaces removed) and their encoded values as described in the IVOA note titled "An Encoding system to Represent Stellar Spectral Classes in Archival Databases and Catalogs". The table contains roughly 450,000 targets. Note Skiff does not list novae or supernovae.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	ivo://archive.stsci.edu/skiff_spclass
landingPage	http://archive.stsci.edu/spec_class/
programCode	[ "026:000" ]
theme	[ "Astrophysics" ]