The MOST instrument will be launched late this year. The COROT and Romer satellite missions are well underway in their design phases and the ESA Eddington satellite has been approved. The future is bright for high-precision, long duration time series photometry of stars, with the purpose of using the frequencies of stellar oscillations to put new constraints on the internal structure of stars. It is known that the effectiveness of oscillation frequencies in constraining stellar model parameters is significantly higher if classical parameters such as effective temperature and luminosity are known with high precision. In order to optimize asteroseismic campaigns it is therefore useful to select targets from among candidates for which good spectroscopic and astrometric data already exists, especially since the cost of collecting such data for large numbers of stars could be prohibitive. This paper presents some selection criteria for asteroseismic campaigns.

 
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