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I've been using this link for the Hipparcos query. http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/hipp/hipparcos.html Nice resource. I'm kind of fuzzy on the error definitions for parallax being greater than the parallax itself, and also on why a parallax would be negative... hm. I got my thing working; it's the firs...

My problem is that I'm using the 2 million stars database which apparently has the distances to those stars wrong and also breaks them so you cannot target them except for Theta 1 Orionis C. Since I need to have the Trap stars and the Orion Nebula (an add-on I acquired specifies its distance as 1477...

Ahh excellent, thank you.

Yes, I had been working with .dsc files as well and those were in the right place. Can you place stars in .dsc files?

I have a .stc file with the following data: 999901 "Trapezium-A:V1016 Ori" { RA 5.5877306 Dec -5.3873 Distance 1477.748 SpectralType "O7Vn" AppMag 6.73 } 999902 "Trapezium-B:BM Ori" { RA 5.5878083 Dec -5.3898 Distance 1477.748 SpectralType "B0V"...