Kin Ming Looi ([email removed]) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me if 2300AD's near star available in machine
> readable form (dBase, CSV, etc.)?
I found two sources by using Veronica on the gopher server. I
used the string:nearby stars I was able to successfully
download the list from the source given below:
>Subject: [sci.space] Nearby stars database available online
(was Re: Map of Local Interstellar Space...in 3-d!)
>Message-ID: [email removed]
>Date: 27 Jan 92 01:27:27 GMT
>Approved: [email removed].
>
>Archive-name: auto/sci.space/Nearby-stars-database-available-
online-was-Re-Map-of-Local-Interstellar-Space-in-3-d
>> This query about nearby Interstellar space seems to be a
>> perennial. How about we add it to the FAQ with reference to
>> Gleise, Traveller 2300 (a game from Game Designers Workshop,
>> I think, which invited interested people to write in for a
>> disk of the data for stars within 50 ly that could be used in
>> MacSpin with 3D zooming etc)? I'll haul up from tape a
>> listing of the nearby stars and place it into the FTP archive
>> here.... I'll put a short note out when I've down it (tape
>> drives permitting!)
> I put a machine-readable version of "The Catalogue of Stars
> within twenty-five parsecs of the Sun" (Woolley, Epps, Penston
> and Pocock (1970), which I originally obtained from the
> National Space Science Data Center (*) online. It's in the
> ames.arc.nasa.gov anonymous FTP SPACE archive in
>
> pub/SPACE/FAQ/{stars.README,stars.data,stars.doc}
> I'll put something about this in the next posting of
> the FAQ as well.
> Followups to sci.space.
>(*) See the sci.space FAQ if you have questions about the NSSDC.
>--
> Jon Leech ([email removed]) __@/
> "The imaging team is moving from its ``instant science'' mode to
> a more leisurely ``fast science'' mode."
> - Dr. Bradford Smith, Voyager Imaging Team
I hope that this is useful.
--Daniel Hejlik
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Daniel P. Hejlik
Cleveland, Ohio