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Database of stars (Score:1)
Are you thinking about something like the New General Catalogue (NGC)? Or one of the specialised star catalogues [wikipedia.org]?
PS.: <ecode> tags automatically escape their content, so if you escape it as well it comes out with gibberish.
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As for ecode, I really thought I'd fixed my posting script... hmph!
rjbs
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Something like The Interactive NGC Catalog Online [seds.org]?
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The HYG database looks potentially like just what I wanted. Now, to make an interface...
rjbs
First Perl program! (Score:1)
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/gurps/galdist.cgi [wisc.edu]
It computes actual and perceived travel times for relativistic journeys between nearby star systems. I wrote it for a (short-lived) sci-fi RPG campaign back in 1999. All of the players in the game were astronomy PhD students, like me, so I had to get the math right.
check the HYG database (Score:1)
HYG to 7.5: Database containing all stars brighter than magnitude +7.5, or closer than 50 parsecs. This is the same as the "Version 1.0" database that has been on this site before. (31858 stars)