NAME Astro::Hipparcos - Perl extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog SYNOPSIS 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 } 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. SEE ALSO 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 by Steffen Mueller This 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.