Astro::Hipparcos

Current version is 0.09.

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NAME
    Astro::Hipparcos - Perl extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog

SYNOPSIS
      use Astro::Hipparcos;
      my $catalog = Astro::Hipparcos->new("thefile.dat");
      while (defined(my $record = $catalog->get_record())) {
        print $record->get_HIP(), "\n"; # print record id
      }

DESCRIPTION
    This is an extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog.

METHODS
  new
    Given a file name, returns a new Astro::Hipparcos catalog object.

  get_record
    Returns the next record (line) from the catalog as an
    Astro::Hipparcos::Record object.

SEE ALSO
    Astro::Hipparcos::Record

    

    At the time of this writing, you could obtain a copy of the Hipparcos
    catalogue from
    
    (hip_main.dat.gz).

AUTHOR
    Steffen Mueller, 

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2009 by Steffen Mueller

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or, at
    your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Documentation

Astro::Hipparcos
Astro::Hipparcos::Record

Change Log

Revision history for Perl extension Astro::Hipparcos.

0.09  Thu Jan 14 22:30 2010
  - Require ExtUtils::XSpp 0.06 for more portability
    via INCLUDE_COMMAND.
  - Updated, improved draw_projection.pl example.

0.08  Sat Jan  2 22:30 2010
  - Better projection example using Astro::SkyPlot.
    (examples/draw_projection.pl)

0.07  Sat Dec 19 00:02 2009
  - Include simple reading/selecting/writing catalogs example
    as examples/simple_selection.pl
  - Include more elaborate Hammer projection plot example as
    examples/draw_hammer_proj.pl
  - Implement the append_record method of a catalog for adding
    records. See the simple_selection example for how you can use
    this to select a subsample of the catalog for further analysis.
  - Implement Astro::Hipparcos::Record->get_line/set_line for holding
    the full catalog line.

0.06  Wed Dec 16 08:00 2009
  - XS/C++ build hotfix

0.05  Tue Dec 15 08:00 2009
  - Distribution hotfix.

0.04  Mon Dec 14 10:22 2009
  - Require ExtUtils::XSpp 0.05 for EU::XSpp::Cmd
  - Use EU::XSpp::Cmd instead of the command line tool to make the
  module build in case the command line tool isn't available.

0.03  Sun Dec 13 15:05 2009
  - Fetching numbered records

0.02  Sun Dec 13 14:45 2009
  - distribution fixes

0.01  Sun Dec 13 10:25 2009
  - original version