CATALOGUES BRIEFING
Extended Hipparcos (22MB)
A subset of the stellar information in the full catalog of the Hipparcos mission.
Available for Carte du Ciel.
SAC (2.6MB)
Saguaro Astronomy Club Database (version 8.1) for bright 'deep sky' objects.
Available for Carte du Ciel.
Bright Star Catalogue (6MB)
5th Edition 1991. Mainly consists of the visible stars. Cite as 'HR nnnn', after 'Harvard Revised'.
Gaia Catalogue of Nearby stars
Lists stars within 326 lightyears of the Sun. Some stars are missed because they are too bright for the
detectors (Gaia Data Release 2). The Gaia mission is an ESA space telescope (2013 - 2022 or 2025).
Aims to measure coords, photometry and spectra of more than a billion objects in the local group.