[AstroPy] Trying to read Tycho-2 catalog

[Ole Streicher]

Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com> writes:
> Note that when using CDS, you can always choose to download the catalog
> as a FITS binary table which would be much simpler to read in.

Thanks, this probably solves my complete problem :-) I wanted to create
a FITS table that can be read to build an astrometry.net index.

I will just add my findings as issues to github...

Cheers

Ole