NAME

Astro::Hipparcos::Record - Represents a single Hipparcos record

SYNOPSIS

use Astro::Hipparcos;
my $catalog = Astro::Hipparcos->new("thefile.dat");
while (defined(my $record = $catalog->get_record())) {
  print $record->get_HIP(), "\n"; # print record id
}

DESCRIPTION

Represents a single Hipparcos record. The code is auto-generated from the C-level structure. Thus the funny member names.

METHODS

new

Returns a new record object.

ParseRecord

Sort of internal method that may SEGFAULT if you use it wrong.

Given a string that MUST contain a full line from the record file, fills the object with data from that line.

ACCESSOR METHODS

Each of these methods descriptions have the following format:

Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

POD_BEGIN

SEE ALSO

Astro::Hipparcos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos_Catalogue

At the time of this writing, you could obtain a copy of the Hipparcos catalogue from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/1/1239/ (hip_main.dat.gz).

AUTHOR

Steffen Mueller, <smueller@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Steffen Mueller

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.