[Kstars-devel] More star catalog issues

Andrew Buck andrew.buck at ndsu.edu
Mon May 26 03:46:00 CEST 2008


> 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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