A wrapper script for rc3tools that searches the RC3 for a galaxy by name. It recognizes NGC, IC, UGC, and PGC names (in various formats).

% rc3gal --help 
Help Information for:  rc3gal

rc3gal:
  Run the RC3TOOL code (an onlder lmfg code) in order to 
  gather a short listing of information about one galaxy. 
  The only input argument is the name of the galaxy. 

  Note that rc3gal is a klugy little script that sets of 
  batch query jobs (for batch_rc3.f) that searches for 
  galaxy by name. This is superceded by NED name searching
  but this is sometimes a useful script. 

EXAMPLE: 

% rc3gal N4618

Results of the RC3 search:

Name_RC3       RA_2000    DEC_2000     Type     Input_name
-----------  ----------- ----------   ------    ----------
NGC  4618    12:41:33.00 +41:09:03.0  .SBT9..   N4618     
dssget 190.387497  41.150833 10.0 dss poss1_red
Btot,DIA(armin),b/a,V:    11.22     4.17   0.813      592.0
Other names: 
   NGC  4618      
   UGC  7853      
   VV     73      
   PGC 42575      

% rc3gal pgc42575

Results of the RC3 search:

Name_RC3       RA_2000    DEC_2000     Type     Input_name
-----------  ----------- ----------   ------    ----------
NGC  4618    12:41:33.00 +41:09:03.0  .SBT9..   pgc42575  
dssget 190.387497  41.150833 10.0 dss poss1_red
Btot,DIA(armin),b/a,V:    11.22     4.17   0.813      592.0
Other names: 
   NGC  4618      
   UGC  7853      
   VV     73      
   PGC 42575      
 

In June 2019 I added some RC3 codes to the OTW routines. I added a few more values to the rc3gal output (by modifying batch_rc3.f) and I now get the following slightly different output list:

% rc3gal N4869  

Results of the RC3 search:

Name_RC3       RA_2000    DEC_2000     Type     Input_name
-----------  ----------- ----------   ------    ----------
NGC  4869    12:59:23.30 +27:54:39.0  .E.3...   N4869     
dssget 194.847092  27.910833 10.0 dss poss1_red
Btot,DIA(armin),b/a,V:    14.77     0.74   1.000     6802.0
T, B-Vt, U-Bt :    -5.00     1.01  -999.00
Other names: 
   NGC  4869      
   MCG  5-31- 65  
                  
   PGC 44587      
index in the RC3 file =    14420