[Kstars-devel] More star catalog issues

[Akarsh Simha]

> Yes, Simbad does give magnitudes.  However, wikipedia gets their mags  
> from simbad, so there shouldn't be any difference.  Since Andrew  
> already has the machinery in place to scrape the wikipedia pages, we  
> can just get the magnitudes that way.

If Simbad can do it for all NGC/IC objects, then we should probably
try and get data from there because most of our magnitude data is
unreliable. But let us first check with the Wikipedia data, as you
say.

Regards
Akarsh
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