number of fainter stars in the BSL catalog with crude positions (and no finding charts) were eliminated entirely. The remaining stars were then compared with the positions listed in the SIMBAD database. A first search was done on the star name, followed by a search on the reported position in the BSL catalog, with the requirement that the magnitude reported in SIMBAD be commensurate with that of the target star. Many of the brighter stars from the BSL catalog now have astrometric positions from [*Hipparcos*]{}, which are accurate at the milli-arcsecond (mas) level. For the stars of intermediate and fainter magnitudes, searches were conducted on the BSL positions by comparison with the USNO-A 2.0 catalog, again with the requirement that the magnitudes be commensurate. The typical accuracy of stellar positions for USNO-A 2.0 is at the 025 (one-sigma) level (Deutsch 1999). Further searches were conducted within the catalogs we use below to find proper motions – NPM1, SPM 2.0, STARNET, and ACT – which resulted in positional accuracies on the order of 02, 30 mas, 03, and 25 mas, respectively. For a small number of stars no improved positional information could be found, hence we retained the positions in the 