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Article #3669Re: Advice wanted: CDROM star charts
From: Linas Petras
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:18
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:18
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One of the best sources for catalogs on CDROM, (if not the best) is NASA
Selected Astronomical Catalogs Volume 1, from the Astronomical Data Center.
It contains from memory 150 different catalogs, including the SAO catalog
which gives you about 250,000 star positions.
Unfortunately the program that comes with the CD only gives you the results
in tabular form, but it should be fairly easy to write a program to access the
data, which is provided in either FITS or ASCII form.
I'm not sure of the address I ordered my from (cost ~US$30.00), but perhaps
someone else can give you an order address.
Hope this helps.
(PS If anyone has any software that they would be prepared to share for reading
these CD's I would be interested in getting a copy).
--
Linas Petras
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