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