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Stellar catalogs

 

 

 

 

 

to enrich celestia, you can add one of the stellar catalogs

according to the performance of your computer...

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Creator : Pascal Hartmann aka granthutchison
Update : 04/13/2009

To proceed, simply replace the old stars.dat file with whichever of the files you will download here.

Again, you may wish to make a backup of your existing file before replacing with either of these files.

NOTE: As discussed on the Celestia forum, these databases may contain some location errors.

Version 2.1 A contains 1,016,382 stars.

Creator : Pascal Hartmann aka granthutchison
Update : 04/13/2009

Version 2.1 C contains 2,072,867 stars.

Creator : LukeCel
Update : 01/09/2022

Version 2.2 contains 210 binary stars.

Creator : ajtribick
Date : 03/03/2022

In order to limit the download size required and to maintain compatibility with the use of HIP/TYC2 identifiers as the primary key for stars in celestia.Sci/Celestia, 

 

First release version with Gaia EDR3 data
Add data for HIP1 stars not in HIP2
Add data for stars in Tycho-2 supplement 1

Statistics:

 

  • 2472034 stars

  • 347653 HD cross-index entries

  • 254874 SAO cross-index entries

 

Read more in credits.txt file.

The stars.dat, hdxindex.dat and saoxindex.dat files will be written into the output folder "data".
 

Version 1.1.1

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