"Bill J. Gray" wrote:

>
> A carefully done merger of galaxy catalogues, of the sort Brian Skiff
> suggests, would indeed be helpful... if nothing else, it can let you
> flag situations where catalog A doesn't match catalog B, whereupon a
> human can look at the result and make a decision. It sounds like a great
> research project to me. If anyone undertakes it, I'd be very happy to
> see the results.

Bill:

Jeff Medkeff is doing just that, with Brian's help. He has some data
for open clusters and is working on the nightmare project for galaxies.
I'll tell you when he is done.

Derek