Where can I get star catalogs on line that give names, distances, constellation boundaries etc?

Go to my Astronomy Cafe 'hotlist' area, and click under the heading for the NSSDC, which is the National Space Science Data Center in Greenbelt Maryland. They have a CDROM called 'Astronomical Catalogs vol I' which has dozens of star catalogs and in the 'Miscellaneous' section, a file of constellation boundary data which for each constellation, gives the coordinates of the vertices for the polygon defining the constellation boundaries. Also, I have had several related queries for on line catalogs which can be found under by question archive Software.


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