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

    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos_Catalogue>

    At the time of this writing, you could obtain a copy of the Hipparcos
    catalogue from
    <ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/1/1239/>
    (hip_main.dat.gz).

AUTHOR
    Steffen Mueller, <smueller@cpan.org>

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.

