The second Gaia data release is scheduled to happen at Noon CEST tomorrow, 25 Apr 2018.

It'll include positions for 1,692,919,135 stars.

Information about Gaia is available at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
and about DR2 at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2

According to the DR2 Media Kit, which is available at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/60174-media-kit ... release-2/

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Selden

Thanks for reminding us, Selden.

Cheers,
Fridger

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KIC 8462852

Gaia DR1 2081900940499099136

Parallaxes (mas): 2.55

Gaia DR2 2081900940499099136

Parallaxes (mas): 2.2185
mag : 11.762624
teff_val (K) : 5899.25
radius_val (sunRad) : 1.65
lum_val (solLum) : 2.963

wow !

KIC 8462852

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Vizi ... out.orig=o

Gaia DR2 2635476908753563008 (TRAPPIST-1)

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Vizi ... out.orig=o

parallax : 80.4512 mas
phot_g_mean_mag: 15.6451 mag
phot_bp_mean_mag: 18.9982 mag
phot_rp_mean_mag: 14.0967 mag
teff_val: 3352.33 K