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Changes for version 0.07 - 2009-12-19

  • 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.

Documentation

Represents a single Hipparcos record

Modules

Perl extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog