Wups! I should have waited for the full file to download... it's
_not_ what we want. It decompresses to one pipe-delimited file, not
readily displayable with Guide. I think the files in

ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/V/133/

are likely to work better.

-- Bill

On 2016-07-08 18:01, Bill Gray wrote:
> Hmmm... I just did a bit of looking around for information on the
> KIC (Kepler Input Catalogue). I found this :
>
> https://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/catalogs/
>
> The 'kic.txt.gz' file looks to be what we need. It's about 761
> MBytes in compressed form, and has data for about 13 million stars.
> It is Version 10, the only version for which I've found any information.
> The format is described at
>
> http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/catalogs/kic.entry.html
>
> The actual data is split up into files containing a one-degree high
> zone. On the plus side, this means that access and display could be
> quite fast. But the TDF could be a little complicated.
>
> If anyone has a TDF for this dataset, please speak up... it could
> be that somebody has mentioned doing this to me already and I'm not
> finding it on my hard drive. If no TDF already exists, I'll take a
> shot at it.
>
> -- Bill
>
> On 2016-07-08 11:24, pastorgalactico@... [guide-user] wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello;
>> Like looking for stars with the KIC designation.
>> Do you have to download the catalog to shove the guide 9.1?
>>
>> Regards;
>>
>>
>> J.Tapioles
>>
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