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For those looking for a larger dataset (~500GB), the European Space Agency has made available last September a similar dataset with 1B star positions and magnitudes, including 2M with velocity information.[1] One nice graph is an impressive sky map generated using simply a density plot of the object positions [2]

[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr1 [2] http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/61/Gaia_GDR1_Sky_Map_...




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