"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
news:4018094e$1@news.povray.org...
> ...except, there's a problem.
>
> The RA and Dec have really really weird ranges,
> and the Magnitude isn't listed for every star,
> which there isn't any reason for it not to be,
> and I'm not sure what 'z' is (if it's distance,
> it's also got a really strange range.

RA is in hours-minutes-seconds (0-235959), and dec is in deg-min-sec (-90 to
90 deg). The z value is the redshift of the star/body, which can be used for
distance estimates.

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