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>I'm looking for a CDROM based star catalog.  I've seen adverts for
>many different ones but I've not found any that yet meet our
>requirements.
>
>What we need is a catalog of at least 400,000 objects specifing RA,DEC
>and magnitude that we could read using our own software (or at least a
>very easy way to retrieve the information automatically)
>
>Does anyone know of anything suitable?

I have purchased the ADC CD-ROM set which contain more than 100 star
catalogues, including the SAO and NGC catalogues for $36 (overseas). I
do not have the ordering information here, but you get the necessary
information from the list-server described below. Try to send something
random to LISTSERV@HYPATIA.GSFC.NASA.GOV.

Regards,
Peter Mortensen

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