Identifiers of star catalogues
Double and multiple stars can be requested from the bdb data base by means of the following star catalogue identifiers :
| ADS | Aitken Double Stars |
| AGK23 | |
| BD | Bonner Durchmusterung |
| BDS | |
| CCDM | Catalogue des Composantes des Etoiles Doubles et Multiples |
| CD | Cordoba Durchmusterung |
| CPD | Cape Photographic Durchmusterung |
| DM | DurchMusterung |
| HD | Henry Draper Catalogue |
| HIC | Hipparcos Input Catalogue |
| HIP | HIpparcos OutPut Catalogue |
| IDS | Index Catalogue of Double Stars |
| SAO | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| VN | to supply the name of an eclipsing binary system |
| WDS | Washington Double Stars catalogue |