[Kstars-devel] Binary file format for NOMAD

Akarsh Simha akarshsimha at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 18:50:06 CEST 2008


> > Yes. What I plan is to check for NOMAD, just like how we check for
> > Tycho-2 deepstars.dat currently. NOMAD could sit in a level-8 mesh
> > while Tycho-2 remains in a level-5 mesh.
> >
> I'm confused...aren't we using a 3-level mesh anymore?  I thought we  
> had 512 trixels.

Oops, I mean level-6 mesh and level-3 mesh respectively. (I added the
first 8 subdivisions of the celestial sphere as well) :)

> BTW, is it worth considering putting deep sky objects on a mesh system  
> as well?

Aren't they already on one? (Atleast within the program, if not on the
files?)

-- 
Akarsh Simha
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