Hi guys,
I don't know if this was the exact group to post in, but I don't think the others are better....
Anyway, my GoTo has the SAO catalogue for star location. Although particular stars are stored under constellations in other naming standards (Alpha Centauri, Theta 2 Blah, 145 CMi etc). Problem is that a lot of the stuff I have with "things" to look at, like Hartung, S&T, S&S, use various naming standards other than SAO. I expect most of these stars will have associated SAO numbers. Does anyone know if there is a site that has a list of cross references between catalogues?
SAO 156865 -> h4854 -> Theta 2 Ori -> Fred's star...blah blah blah
I found one site which allows you to do an SAO search
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin...se/w3browse.pl
but what I would really like is a comma or tab delimited text file I can import into Excel. I can then add this to my observation list on my iPAQ. It doesn't need to have a lot of extra data; RA, Dec, Mag, Type would be nice...maybe even number of planets, number of earthlike planets, level of technology established, current population, email addresses of some inhabitants....oops...getting silly now
Thanks