One Stop Shopping? -- Star Catalogs

(OG) wrote:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
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On 8/21/2010 11:59 PM, Martin Nicholson wrote:
On 22 Aug, 00:03, "W. wrote:
Is there a single source that pretty well describes the various star
(celestial) catalogs available in some detail. For example, no. of
objects, type of objects, region of the sky surveyed, sponsor, history,
etc. GSC, NGC, Hipparcos-Tycho, U. of Mich., ...

Try
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Vizier
Thanks. Although that is the correct address, I had to get there via
Google and wikipedia. It may be the link needs around it, which is
usually for keeping long links from inserting a CR into the URL.

More likely, it's because the url (for some reason) is case sensitive.
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizierR

That, and it's spelled "cgi" not "viz"
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/VizieR

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