Is there a publicly available list of the Gliese catalogue of nearby stars with their constellations? or a Gliese to Hipparcos List ?
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$\begingroup$ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_Catalogue_of_Nearby_Stars might help (note that it's Gliese, not Gilese). $\endgroup$– user21Apr 5, 2015 at 13:58
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The Gliese catalogue can be found at CDS here.
Given an RA and Dec then you can use the fortran program found here to get the constellation.
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1$\begingroup$ Thanks Rob, I finally got round to downloading and looking. I ran the program and don't know what values i'm supposed to be entering. What is meant by :- CONSTELLATION derived from POSITION for Equinox and Enter the position (HH.hhhh+DD.dddd). How do I put in the following Star coordinates :- RA:06.45.08.9173, Dec: -16.42.58.017, returns Monoceros rather than Canis Major (Sirius)? $\endgroup$ Apr 18, 2015 at 8:30
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$\begingroup$ @MiscellaneousUser Its asking for decimal hours and degrees as input. Try 06.7525-16.7161. (hh.mm/60+ss.s/3600.0 , dd.mm/60+ss.s/3600.0). $\endgroup$– ProfRobOct 31, 2015 at 21:02