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NAME
Astro::Hipparcos - Perl extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalogSYNOPSIS
use Astro::Hipparcos;
my $catalog = Astro::Hipparcos->new("thefile.dat");
while (defined(my $record = $catalog->get_record())) {
print $record->get_HIP(), "\n"; # print record id
}
# the twelth record (i.e. first is 1, NOT 0)
my $specific_record = $catalog->get_record(12);
DESCRIPTION
This is an extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog.METHODS
new
Given a file name, returns a new Astro::Hipparcos catalog object.get_record
Returns the next record (line) from the catalog as an Astro::Hipparcos::Record object.append_record
Appends a record to an existing (or new) catalog. Can be used to select subsamples of the full record and write them to new data files. Confer the example in this distribution examples/simple_selection.pl.SEE ALSO
For an example what you can produce with this little tool, have a look at <http://steffen-mueller.net/hipparcos/hipparcos.eps.bz2>. This is implemented in the examples/draw_hammer_proj.pl example in this distribution.Astro::Hipparcos::Record
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos_Catalogue>
At the time of this writing, you could obtain a copy of the Hipparcos catalogue from <ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/1/1239/> (hip_main.dat.gz).
AUTHOR
Steffen Mueller, <smueller@cpan.org>COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Steffen MuellerThis library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
| 2010-01-14 | perl v5.32.1 |
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