johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) (02/04/86)
Can anybody tell me where we can get a machine-readable catalogue of stars? We have a small(ish) list of stars (extracted from the Yale catalogue), but this only gives a 2D coordinate system. What we want is 3D coordinate data, so we at least need the distance from earth as well as the RA & D values. Please reply directly to {...}!wanginst!apollo!johnf or {...}!hsi!yale!apollo!johnf as I do not normally subscribe to net.astro. Thank You