stars.bin — stars down to magnitude 8 (V <= 8.0) from the HYG Database v4.4 by David Nash (astronexus), https://codeberg.org/astronexus/hyg Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: kept only stars of magnitude 8.0 or brighter, removed the Sun, and stored each star as J2000 right ascension, declination, magnitude and B-V colour index (int16 x 4).