Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Star Catalog Help Message-ID: <21168@lanl.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:29:04 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.21168 Posted: Wed Feb 6 22:29:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 04:41:16 EST References: <1953@drutx.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 13 > > Does anyone know of an on-line database or book-form catalogue of > stars down to about 5th magnitude, or (preferably) fainter? > Data should include position (1950 or 2000 - as long as I know which), > magnitude, color (type), size, and distance. > I've often wondered about this myself. Has the Palomar Sky Survey (published by the Smithsonian I think) ever been digitized? With nearly EVERYONE using computers of some sort as a telescope controller you'd think that there's got to be something digitized. J. Giles