Re: SKY2000 Catalog

[jg <jg@jgws.freeisp.co.uk>]

aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote:
> 
> Find the documentation for sky2000 and see where or how they
> are obtaining their magnitudes/colors.  I am not familiar
> with this catalog; my guess is that they are using other
> sources for their information, perhaps even Tycho2, so you
> may be coming 'round full circle.
> Arne

Sky2000 is a multi-sourced compilation done by a NASA based fellow
(well, he was NASA based, dunno about now).

It's remit (was) to collect as much data about any star as possible. 
Whether that is a critical compilation or merely a SIMBADesque linkage
of data I don't know.

As Arne notes though, nothing new, just taken from other sources.

Cheers

John G.