Richard Baker wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know where I can grab a good Star Database
>> online?
>
> The third Gliese contains positional data for 3803 stars within 25
> parsecs. You can download it at
>
> http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/downloads/gliese-3-0.92.tar.gz
>
I already had it; the problem is that they have just the
closest (not the brightest) stars
> and the Yale Bright Star Catalogue contains records for 9096 stars
> brighter than magnitude 6.5 and can be downloaded at
>
> http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/downloads/yale-5-0.92.tar.gz
>
Did you get up a little bit, at...
http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/
... where Kevin McCarthy talks about his projects, one of
them is what I am probably trying to do? The project
StarPlot, at...
http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/starplot.html
... seems very interesting.
Alberto Monteiro
