Note: The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) contains astrometric and photometric data for over 1 billion stars derived from the Hipparcos (I/239), Tycho-2 (I/259), UCAC2 (I/289), and USNO-B1.0 (I/284) catalogs for astrometry and optical photometry, supplemented by 2MASS (II/246) near-infrared photometry.
An efficient remote query program findnomad1 is available in the cdsclient package, for Unix/Linux platforms

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NOMAD Catalog (Zacharias+ 2005) ReadMe+ftp 2004AAS...205.4815Z metaI/297/out The NOMAD-1 Catalog (1117612732 rows)