Francois Ochsenbein has been kind enough to make available through the Strasbourg VizieR utility a large file of stellar spectral classifications that I have been compiling for some time. This includes a compendium of the work I have done identifying stars appearing in objective-prism surveys from several observatories as well as shorter lists and very recent literature. I intend to update the file on the timescale of months (another ~5000 stars are ready for the next iteration) to include both current literature and gradually extending the dataset back a decade or so if possible. The file includes accurate coordinates for the stars, and shows a citation for each entry. The omission of the latter was a serious problem with the catalogues published by Bill Buscombe, who died earlier this year. The VizieR query utility allows searches by coordinates and other criteria (including the standard 19-digit bibcode, so you can get lists from specific papers), and a gzipped copy of the complete file is available from links there. The current file is also copied to the Lowell ftp area as shown below. http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?III/233 http://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/mktypes.cat (5.4Mb on July 1) \Brian
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