stycho Examples

Find the 10 brightest Hipparcos Tycho Catalog Stars in 30 arcminute square box centered on 10:00:00 +10:00:00 J2000 and sort them by magnitude.: stycho -hn 10 -r 1800 10:00:00 +10:00:00 J2000
produces the following: STYCHO 2.4.1, 16 September 1998, Doug Mink SAO Tycho 10:00:00.000 +10:00:00.00 (J2000) +- 1800.00 10 / 13 Tycho Catalog Stars (brighter than 11.6) Tycho number RA2000 Dec2000 Mag Type Arcsec 832.06321 09:58:45.692 +10:27:31.08 9.07 M1 1982.24 829.00231 09:58:00.595 +09:41:40.59 9.37 F0 2079.14 832.12001 10:01:46.852 +10:12:57.34 9.84 F8 1758.99 832.09811 09:58:28.750 +10:25:28.44 9.98 G2 2037.33 832.09051 09:59:17.067 +10:10:02.94 10.32 F8 874.96 832.10651 09:58:28.086 +10:02:51.30 10.46 F8 1368.43 832.08721 09:58:07.998 +10:01:52.95 10.95 F5 1658.27 829.07851 10:00:59.943 +09:40:43.84 11.21 G2 1456.56 829.01931 10:01:42.729 +09:36:40.47 11.26 K8 2065.02 832.10121 10:01:24.428 +10:04:25.54 11.63 G5 1275.00

Find all Hipparcos Tycho Catalog stars within 30 arcminutes of M51 and write the results to a file: stycho -wsr -1800 -o m51 13:27:48.311 +47:27:28.98 B1950
produces the following in the file m51.tycho: CATALOG Tycho RA 13:29:54.673 DEC +47:12:01.38 RADIUS +00:30:00.00 EQUINOX 1950.0 RASORT T PROGRAM STYCHO 2.4.1, 16 September 1998, Doug Mink SAO tycho_id ra1950 dec1950 mag type arcsec ---------- ------------ ------------ ------ ---- ------ 3460.06831 13:25:41.380 +47:36:55.86 11.28 F5 1404.84 3463.09781 13:28:47.842 +47:04:17.76 11.40 F8 1517.47 3463.05871 13:29:15.165 +47:23:33.20 11.91 G5 912.40 3463.02841 13:29:50.229 +47:29:28.46 7.33 A7 1241.86

Find the closest Hipparcos Tycho Catalog star to 10:00:00 +10:00:00 B1950.: stycho -ah 10:00:00 +10:00:00 B1950
produces the following:
STYCHO 2.4.1, 17 September 1998, Doug Mink SAO Find closest star Tycho number RAB1950 DecB1950 MagB MagV Type Arcsec 829.06551 09:59:51.226 +09:55:20.21 11.87 10.70 K8 308.36

Last updated 7 December 1998 by Doug Mink dmink@cfa.harvard.edu
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