Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: hipparcos-catalog
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: Bundled Hipparcos 2 star catalog (I/311 hip2.dat)
Author: Steven Michael
License: MIT
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/ssmichael1/hipparcos-catalog
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown

# hipparcos-catalog

Bundled [Hipparcos 2 star catalog](https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hipparcos/hipparcos-2) (ESA I/311) for Python.

## Installation

```bash
pip install hipparcos-catalog
```

## Usage

```python
import hipparcos_catalog

# Get the path to the bundled hip2.dat file
path = hipparcos_catalog.catalog_path()
```

## About the catalog

The Hipparcos 2 catalog (van Leeuwen 2007) contains astrometric data for 117,955 stars observed by the ESA Hipparcos satellite. The catalog is in the public domain.
