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List:       kstars-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kstars-devel] More star catalog issues
From:       Andrew Buck <andrew.buck () ndsu ! edu>
Date:       2008-05-26 1:46:00
Message-ID: 1211766360.13310.4.camel () numberCruncher ! gateway ! 2wire ! net
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> It's a good idea in principle, but wikipedia will only have articles
> for at most a few hundred of the brightest stars, so I don't think we
> can get a complete catalog from wp.  Our stars catalog is actually
> pretty good, it's based on the Hipparcos catalog...but I did the name
> association myself, so I think this bug resulted from that process.
> 
> As Akarsh said, our NGC/IC catalog is pretty incomplete, so it's
> possible that we could use wp to improve this catalog.  Are you
> interested in investigating the possibility?

I could certainly take a look at it.

-Buck

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