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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: very large data files
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-10 9:22:35
Message-ID: 43d8ce650807100222p1d1fc61bk42fe51ad3f63c6ad () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/7/10 Jason Harris <kstars@30doradus.org>:
> You'll note I didn't even mention the file containing 1e9 stars.  The
> US Naval Observatory publishes a catalog with 1e9 stars called NOMAD
> (which our large catalogs are based on), and to obtain it you have to
> send them a USB hard drive with a capacity of at least 100 GB.  We'd
> probably have to use a similar method.

Couldn't you just tell people to do exactly that - get the data from NOMAD? :)

Can kstars easily import the raw data from NOMAD?

John Tapsell
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