That’s very interesting. Yes, send his contact details. I have C2A which uses a number of digital catalogues such as UCAC4, and TYC. I’m not as familiar with it as I am with Stellarium. But hope to progress with C2A. The Tycho catalogue may be of interest in print form seeing as I have it that works in the background of C2A.
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