Surf these sites: Astrographic Catalogue Project -- The Astrographic Catalogue (AC) was an international effort designed to photograph and measure the positions of all stars brighter than magnitude 11.0. The 50 Nearest Stars -- Table with details about the 50 nearest stars. Names, distances, constellations, spectral types, magnitudes and coordinates. The Double Star Library -- The Double Star Library hopes to be a means by which various types of binary and multiple star information can be easily disseminated among binary star astronomers in IAU Commission 26 and related commissions. The Galactic Gazetteer -- Database of 13000 nearby stars, viewable using Stellavision 3D Java applet. The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission -- home page, site guide, research tools, news and results, the catalogues, education, visual results, further information, the future, animations. USNO PMM Star Catalogs -- USNO is making the USNO-SA2.0 catalog (54,787,624 stars in all on one CD-ROM) available for free. The full USNO-A2.0 catalog (526,230,881 stars on 10 CD-ROMs) is also available provided you can provide a brief explanation of why USNO-SA2.0 is not sufficient. That''s information on over half a billion stars! White Dwarf Database -- An electronic database of the white dwarf stars.
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