This is a stellar data set for use by the StarPlot program.  You will need
to have StarPlot already installed in order to install this data set.
To download StarPlot, see the web page at http://www.starplot.org
or, if you are using Debian or a compatible system: apt-get install starplot

This directory should include the following files:

	README		This file.
	INSTALL		Instructions for installing this data set.
	COPYING		Information about the copyright of this data set.
	Changelog       History of the StarPlot incarnation of this data set.
	yale5.spec	Specification of original data file format.
	orig-data/	Contains the unmodified data from the ADC archives.
	debian/         Control information for building a Debian package.

These data come from the [Yale] Bright Star Catalog, 5th Rev. Ed.
(preliminary), Hoffleit and Warren, 1991.  The original catalog is in the file
orig-data/catalog.dat, with a description in orig-data/ReadMe; it contains all
the stars with apparent magnitude brighter than +6.5.  The catalog also comes
with a file of extra notes, orig-data/notes.dat, which is not currently used
by the StarPlot conversion program.  At install time, the conversion program
will generate a StarPlot-readable file, yale5.stars.  After conversion, this
file will contain approximately 8000 star records.

The data set was obtained from the archives of the Astronomical Data
Center (ADC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  These archives are available
to the public at http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

COPYRIGHT NOTE

It is safe to redistribute the files in the orig-data directory,
which, as noted above, are freely available on the Astronomical Data Center
web site.  However, since these are copyrighted data, you may NOT redistribute
modified versions of them.  This is why I have the StarPlot-format data files,
*.stars, generated at install time instead of being available for download.
I would advise that you NOT redistribute these *.stars data files.  See the 
file COPYING for more information.

