#6 Replace Gliese data with Hipparcos

[David Eyk]

In shooting for realism, it would be cool to get our
hands on the Hipparcos star catalogue, just released a
couple of years ago from the ESA. The data was
gathered by a satellite over a period of 3-4 years, if
I recall, and is far more complete and accurate than
Gliese. This would probably make the statistical
random filler that Jim added in for Starmap 1.0
unnecessary.

This would be a simple(?) matter of getting the
catalogue in text form and running it through a munging
script to get it into whatever format we use (I imagine
we'll be using the old 1.0 format for the time being?).

All things Hipparcos can be found at:
http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/hipparcos.html

[Robert Kjelgaard]

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Thanks, David- I'll look into this- also into perhaps
retrieving the original Gliese data (if it isn't in there
already- I do remember seeing some directories in there
somewhere).