Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site cfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!cfa!mink From: mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Star Catalog Help Message-ID: <123@cfa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 16:43:36 EST Article-I.D.: cfa.123 Posted: Thu Feb 7 16:43:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 05:07:43 EST References: <1953@drutx.UUCP> <21168@lanl.ARPA> Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lines: 20 > 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. > For book form, I'd recommend the Sky Catalogue 2000.0, published by Sky Publishing (Sky & Telescope magazine) and the Cambridge University Press. It has 45,000 stars and goes down to 8th magnitude. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a digitized version floating around somewhere. As for digitized catalogs, the National Space Science Data Center at NASA-Goddard sells digitized versions of many catalogs, including the 259,000-star 9th magnitude Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory catalog. I had a compressed version (about 8.5 Mbytes) on a DG Nova, which I intend to port to VAX UNIX someday. -Doug Mink {harvard|genrad|allegra|ihnp4}!wjh12!cfa!mink Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138