Your best bet is to use the Hipparcos Input Catalog ESA Publication SP-1136 edited by C. Turan et al. 1992. It is a catalog of some 100,000 stars observed by the Hipparcos satellite and in its 7 volumn set, each star has a column for alternate catalog identifications. All of the Gleise stars are in there, together with their SAO, HD and AGK3 numbers. Example, SAO 91669 = Gleise 914A = HD 224930.
The Hipparcos Observatory also has several online catalogs at ESA/ESTEC which list star names and some cross-index information. According to their information, the various fields in the tables are as follows:
All four tables give results for the same series of quantities. The successive fields contain:
1.the identifier in the Hipparcos Catalogue (the HIP number, Field H1);
2.if available, the identifier in the HD Catalogue (the HD number, Field H71);
3.the (truncated) right ascension (alpha), in degrees (Field H8);
4.the (truncated) declination (delta), in degrees (Field H9);
5.the visual magnitude V (FieldH5);
6.the absolute visual magnitude, computed as M_V=V+5 log (pi)-10, with pi in milliarcsec;
7.the trigonometric parallax (pi), in milliarcsec (Field H11);
8.the standard error in the trigonometric parallax sigma_pi, in milliarcsec (Field H16);
9.the relative precision of the distance sigma_pi/pi;
10.the total proper motion |mu| in milliarcsec per year;
11.the proper motion in right ascension (mu_alpha*) in milliarcsec per year (Field H12);
12.the proper motion in declination (mu_delta) in milliarcsec per year (Field H13);
13.the transverse velocity, computed as V_T = A_v |mu|/pi, in km/s;
14.an asterisk indicating that the star is in the Catalogue of Nearby Stars, 3rd version (CNS3);
15.the Bayer/Flamsteed name of the star (as in Volume 13); if not available, a common name (as in Volume 13); if not
available, blank.
Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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