finding Star coordinates

[jestr]

Hi,I'm currently trying to make a Star Trek addon with all the different alien empires placed in roughly the right part of the galaxy and have installed Pascal Hartmanns big stars.dat file,however the stars Ive chose for most of the homeworlds are from the Tycho catalogue
TYC 3533-3361-0 for Romulus
TYC 7668-2054-1 for Klingon
TYC 2149-1499-1 for Cardassia
TYC 5214-3365-0 for Bajor
TYC 5689-1216-1 for Barzan Wormhole
Ideally I want to include STC files for these stars (for anyone without the big stars.dat file) and to edit the names to include the fictional name of the relevant stars.I have tried to find the coordinates of these stars using Vizier and Simbad but cant seem to find them,can anyone help me to locate the relevant info or help in extracting this info from stars.dat ?Jestr

[Cormoran]

Jestr,

What are you using as a data source?I presume the excellent 'Star Trek Star Charts' book, which is actualy very accurate when it comes to actual star positions.

Cormoran

[jestr]

Hi Cormoran,I have been using info from the web mainly here
http://www.stdimension.de/int/index.htm
but there are other sites also with some conflicting info but a lot they do agree on.Its gonna be a good deal of work to create planetary systems for all of the different empires but there are a lot of different spaceship models out there on the web so I thought it about time I find a good home for them,Jestr

[TERRIER]

Jestr,
Don't know if you've seen this site and if it will help ?

http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/HIP ... earch.html


Here's part of the code for 7668-2054-1

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T0  : T                    Catalogue (H = Hipparcos, T = Tycho)
T1  : 7668  2054 1         TYC1-3 (TYC number)
T2  :                      Proximity flag
T3  :  08 12 05.98         Identifier RA,  h m s (J1991.25)
T4  : -42 37 22.4          Identifier Dec, d m s (J1991.25)
T5  :       11.63          V (Johnson) magnitude
T6  :                      Blank for Tycho
T7  :                      Source of magnitude identifier
T8  :      123.02491560    alpha, degrees (J1991.25)
T9  :      -42.62289608    delta, degrees (J1991.25)


regards
TERRIER

[jestr]

Nice one mate,yes thats just what I was looking for ,cheers Jestr

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

That's odd. The stars you have for the Klingon homeworld and the Barzan wormhole are the only ones that appear to exist in the database. The other numbers just return a result of "no object found"