[Kstars-devel] More star catalog issues

[Akarsh Simha]

> It would be really great if we could get our hands on angular size and
> position angle data as well...ooh, it looks like simbad reports
> major/minor axis length and position angle.  For example, here is the
> simbad result for M 31:
> http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=m+31&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id

Doesn't simbad give us magnitudes? What are the 'fluxes' there? Can we
convert them into magnitudes?

> the line labeled "Angular size (arcmin)" has three values, these are
> the major and minor axis length in arcmin, and the position angle in
> degrees.  We can send batch queries to simbad to retrieve the data for
> a large number of objects, but maybe that's a TODO item...let's see
> what wikipedia can do for us.

That shouldn't be difficult.

Regards
Akarsh
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