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Originally Posted by Placidus
Thanks for the good suggestion. Never tried Simbad (and would probably need the harbour-master's help)...
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Mike, you can download Aladin (it needs Java) from
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml (or run it online) and it will do all the hard work getting the data from Simbad.
You open your plate-solved FITS in Aladin, and use "File->Load Catalog->Simbad database" to select the sort of objects you want. Note that it defaults to a 14' radius around the image centre. I asked for stars and it gave me ~4600 from which I picked out any OBAF candidates.