On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:19:00 -0600, Mike <Ama### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>It would be kinda' cool if someone could create an outline for a macro
>that calculates the positions of various stars in the sky in such a way
>that it would be easy for others to add to it.  I figure the sky could
>be divided up into zones and then someone could get that section of sky
>and using star charts add all the visible stars up to about magnitude 6
>or 7. I figure with a few dozen people working on it we could have them
>all covered in a few months, though I really don't know how many stars
>this would actually cover.  Anyone know?

I think there are probably databases of this sort of thing.  I guess I'd
start by checking some astronomy sites.  Once you have one, put it into 
a format that #read can understand, and the rest is just banging a few
bits together.

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