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From: dba@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (David Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Star Catalog Help
Message-ID: <237@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 11:52:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 11:52:09 1985
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This is a re-posting from the ARPAnet Space Digest -- maybe it will be of
some help.  Of course, I hesitate to post the whole 2 megabytes, but it
may be possible to track down the source of the original floppies.

* Date: Mon, 10 Sep 84 11:14:40 CDT
* From: Mike Caplinger 
* Subject: small star database
* To: cbosgd!djb@Berkeley.ARPA (David J. Bryant)
* Cc: sky-fans@mit-xx.ARPA
* 
* As a couple of people told me, the Yale Catalog of Bright Stars is
* online in the CP/M archives on Simtel-20.  According to the
* documentation, this catalog is in the public domain.  It contains
* information for about ~9000 stars, and is slightly less than 2
* megabytes long.
* 
* To get it, anonymous FTP to host SIMTEL-20, and retrieve
* MICRO:STAR.DOC, and the eight files
* MICRO:STARn.DAT, n = 1 to 8
* 
* (It's in eight separate files because it was originally distributed on
* floppy disk.)
* 
* These are text files, and the format is explained in the documentation
* file.
* 
* By the way, SIMTEL-20 doesn't do directory listings over FTP for these
* directories.
* 
* 	- Mike

-- David Anderson, Carnegie-Mellon University, CSD, (412) 422-1255.