OK, after all of that effort I have now discovered
SIMBAD.
Wikipedia seems to imply that it's kept up to date regularly.
Anyone know just how trustworthy and up to date it is?
I ask because I searched for objects within parallax of 66 mas (about 14 parsecs) on SIMBAD and got 1313 objects. But when I went through XHIP, RECONS, and CTIOPI for the same radius and removed redundant entries I only ended up with 677 objects. Granted some of them are multiple systems that weren't split out, but not enough to account for that much of a difference.
Should I trust SIMBAD more? Some of it's entries are described as odd things like "Infrared source".
EDIT-- Wow. There are
207 HABCAT stars within 14pc of Sol. I'll end up shaving a lot of those off, though, since I plan on making cube-shaped sectors each about 10pc on a side. (Thus from vertex to vertex is about 14pc, which is why I'm searching that far.)