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Looking for a source of apparent star positions

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From: Ron Story
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:01
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Hi--

	I've written an ephemeris library and I'm looking for an 
accurate source of on-line apparent star positions.  I've spent
a good deal of time working around the numerical limitations of
C language double variable and would like to check my program against
a known source.
	What I would really like is list of RA and Dec values with
proper motions of a given Epoch and the apparent object position at
a given date.  It would be great if the positions were also took in
latitude and longitude and maybe altitude but that would be icing 
on the cake.
	Optionally, a program in the public domain that would take 
these values and produce apparent positions would be fine.

Thanks,

Ron

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From: rstory@simhp720.mentorg.com (Ron Story)
Subject: Looking for a source of apparent star positions
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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:01:23 GMT
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Keywords: ephemeris database star catalog position
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