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Originally Posted by Keysh
The Hipparcos catalog by design only has stars brighter than the Hipparcos satellite limit, which was a V-band magnitude of 12.4. So stars like Wolf 359 (V = 13.5) are simply too faint to make the cutoff. [I'm assuming you know how magnitudes work, but in case not: larger numbers = fainter.]
RECONS is, as I understand it, an ongoing project making new (ground-based) observations; the most recent publications are from this year. So you're probably better off using that, since it will be more complete for the really faint stars.
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Well, I can't find any sort of dataset from RECONS, other than their nearest 100 star list and the CTIOPI list of dwarfs. Is there one? I was going through and manually adding those two lists to Hipparcos.