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starcat: Data extracted from Yale bright star catalogue

Description

The data frame contains the equitorial coodinates at epoch 2000.0 of 9110 bright stars extracted from Yale bright star catalogue.

Usage

data(starcat)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 9110 rows on the following 4 columns.
resRA
Right Ascension of each star at epoch 2000.0
rrr
Declination of each star at epoch 2000.0
Vmag
Visual magnitude for each star.
SAO
SAO index for each star.

Source

ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/V/50/catalog.gz

References

Hoffleit D., Warren Jr W.H. The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version) 1991

Examples

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data(starcat)

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