very large data files

[Ralf Habacker]

John Tapsell schrieb:
> 2008/7/10 Jason Harris <kstars at 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?
>   
Just a little note from: there is an online access to the data available 
http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/vo_nofs.html so it may be possible 
to download the data on demand and cache it locally like google earth does.

Ralf