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Antoine Couette wrote:
> You mentioned the FK6 Catalog, and it brings me to the following point :
> 
> Since the first HIPPARCOS Catalog in 1997, EASA published in 2007 a 
> (higly) improved HIPPARCOS Catalog.

And the catalog is online at CDS (Centre de Données astronomiques de 
Strasbourg). So is the original Hipparcos catalog and the FK6. They may 
be accessed via the VizieR tool:

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/

A query form lets you select the fields you want, the sort field, and 
constraints. For example, enter <2 in the Magnitude constraint box, and 
click the right ascension sort button. Then the output table will 
contain only stars less than (brighter than) magnitude 2, sorted by RA.

CDS automatically adds the J2000.0 ICRS RA and dec. to the table. These 
values are corrected for proper motion. (The Hipparcos catalog values 
are ICRS at epoch J1991.25. This is also true for the new reduction.)

These are all catalog positions, however. I know of no Web source for 
precise (beyond the needs of celestial navigation) geocentric or 
topocentric apparent coordinates of date.

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