Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!consult From: consult@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space,net.astro Subject: Re: Stellar info Message-ID: <109@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 13:43:32 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.109 Posted: Sat Jun 23 13:43:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jun-84 06:26:20 EDT References: <1716@iddic.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 29 Xref: 483 65 With regards to the request for a stellar object DB: Believe it or not, there does not exist a comprehensive DB for stellar objects, although there are a number of sites that are working on it. The most notable of these sites is at Mt. Palomar. A number of years ago, they composed the "Mount Palomar Sky Survey," which was a photographic atlas of the northern hemisphere. They have released a computerized version of this survey, called PSS. It is, as far as I am aware, not as complete as the photographic atlas, but it isn't bad. (I've used it) They are currently working on a similar computer DB for the southern hemisphere as well. As to what computers they are available on, they mostly reside on VAX/VMS machines. As a matter of fact, there is a computer network called MADRAf, composed of VAXs running VMS which has the PSS on it. I am, unfortunately, not aware of any UNIX based astronomical databases at all. (One other thing you might wanna look into, is the Plato (Trademark) planetarium program on the CDC PLATO system. It is not a professional astronomer's database, but it presents the locations of the better known stellar objects with reasonable accuracy for everyone else... Rob "stars are my life" DeMillo MACC