I am looking for an open database, obligatory an up-to-dated one, which includes all discovered stars and their parameters.
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1It's not ALL known stars, but going through this might be a good start: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/3668/where-can-i-find-a-catalog-of-all-stars-in-the-milky-way – Nov 16 '17 at 14:10
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1See GAIA in the answer to https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/13488 – Nov 16 '17 at 15:04
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2The answer is no. Your best bet if you know where the star is (or what its name is), is to interrogate SIMBAD http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ – ProfRob Nov 16 '17 at 18:58
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As @ProfRob already stated, there is no single star database with all parameters. Here are some resources:
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- GAIA Archive "providing astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of more than 1000 million stars in the Milky Way."
A helpful and extensive collection of online resources is collected as community wiki answer to the question Where can I find the positions of the planets, stars, moons, artificial satellites, etc. and visualize them?
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