NAME

gaia - locates GAIA catalog stars

SYNOPSIS

gaia coordinate_string [decimal] [faint=] [bright=] [debug] [skip] [radius=] [skip] [timeout=]

DESCRIPTION

This program looks up the stars within about 0.1 degree from the Gaia cone search using the web.

The output is are coordinate strings with a format similar to the following: 

fornax Code/finder> gaia ra=12:30 dec=20 
ra=12:29:55.05 dec=+19:55:55.24 equinox=2000.000 epoch=2000.000 name=1099-0205290 mode=catalog pmra=-12.0 pmdec=14.0 mag=14.72
ra=12:29:57.93 dec=+20:05:29.80 equinox=2000.000 epoch=2000.000 name=1100-0207034 mode=catalog pmra=12.0 pmdec=-40.0 mag=13.87
ra=12:30:18.69 dec=+20:03:50.94 equinox=2000.000 epoch=2000.000 name=1100-0207105 mode=catalog pmra=-42.0 pmdec=-24.0 mag=13.90
ra=12:30:22.47 dec=+20:02:00.09 equinox=2000.000 epoch=2000.000 name=1100-0207118 mode=catalog pmra=4.0 pmdec=24.0 mag=14.32
The magnitude is the mean_g.

The program writes a temporary file. /tmp/gaia-$LOGNAME.dat where LOGNAME is the environment variable describing the user.

OPTIONS

radius= sets the search radius in decimal degrees.

decimal - prints out coordinates in decimal degrees.

bright= sets the bright magnitude limit.

faint= sets the faint magnitude limit.

skip - doesn't do the search but prints out the last file searched (for testing)

timeout= sets a timeout for the curl request in seconds (def: none).

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