  We have compiled the near infrared Point Source Catalogue (PSC) towards the
Magellanic Clouds (MCs) extracted from the data obtained with the Deep Near
Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky - DENIS (Epchtein et al. 1997). The
catalogue covers an area of of 19.87* 16 square degrees centered on (RA,
DEC)=(5h27m20s, -69o00'00'') for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 14.7* 10
square degrees centered on (RA, DEC)=(h02m40s, -73o00'00'' for the Small
Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains about 1300000 sources
towards the LMC and 300000 sources towards the SMC each detected in at least 2
of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey (I, J, Ks). 70% of the
detected sources are true members of the Magellanic Clouds, respectively and
consist mainly of red giants, asymptotic giant branch stars and super-giants.
The observations have all been made with the same instrument and the data have
been calibrated and reduced uniformly. The catalogue provides a homogeneous set
of photometric data.
