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Hipparcos data in VStar

BBI
Affiliation
Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium) (VVS)
Wed, 01/20/2016 - 18:40

How does the plug-in "New star from Hipparcos file" work? I have tried to save the data in a .txt file, but that's not the correct format. Who can help?

#-- \lz TYC P=0.344909 \lz P=0
#JD-2440000 mag (error)
# m = -2
# m = -3
7963.74264 8.7039 0.011
7963.75694 8.6655 0.017
7963.83152 8.9993 0.013
7963.84586 9.0801 0.015
7995.19168 8.8147 0.013
7995.20600 8.8892 0.014
7995.28056 8.7475 0.014
7995.29489 8.7172 0.013
7995.36947 8.8132 0.013

David Benn
Affiliation
Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)
Thu, 01/21/2016 - 12:52
Changes?

Hmm.

I just tried the example HIP URL we mention here:

  https://www.aavso.org/vstar-plugin-library#hipparcos

in VStar:

but no observations were found. I notice when I navigate to that page in a web browser that it redirects to the Hipparcos home page. I'm wondering whether something has changed with respect to the Hipparcos catalog web search.

David