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Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] Inaccurate Catalogs?
From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha () gmail ! com>
Date: 2007-12-07 6:51:15
Message-ID: 20071207063915.GF3853 () PENGUIN ! BANGALORE
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Hi
> Welcome back!
Thanks Jason.
> The trouble is, there is no good GPL-compatible deep-sky catalog that I am
> aware of. The one that ships with kstars was cobbled together by me from
> various public-domain sources, and it's missing a lot of data like photometry
> and size/position angle. If someone were inclined to do a better job
> creating a GPL-compatible deep-sky catalog, that would be a great way to
> contribute to KStars.
What about this one? I've seen many commercial and free software use this.
(eg: SkyMap Pro, and Cartes du Ciel)
I however couldn't find any license agreement whatsoever...
http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/downloads.htm
I have found this database to be extremely useful, with a lots of extra information,
apart from what we already have. (eg: separate B and V magnitudes, NGC descriptions)
Since we're now in a feature-freeze, I guess we wouldn't want to use all this extra
information.
This is not in our catalog format, and I wouldn't mind taking up the fairly trivial
task of converting this into our catalog format.
> The Steinecke catalog that you can download with the Ctrl+D tool is much
> better. However, its license specifies that it is free for non-commercial
> uses only, which is not compatible with the GPL, so it can't be included as
> part of KStars.
Oh... ok. I overlooked that!
> In the case of NGC 2090, the 11.9 magnitude is from the RC3. It's a B-band
> magnitude.
Are all the magnitudes that we have in our catalogs B-band?
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