[Kstars-devel] Caldwell catalog in Kstars?

[Jasem Mutlaq]

The catalog didn't load correctly because the last column was set to
"Ignore" but the actual data sometimes had an ignore column and sometimes
not so it wasn't processing them correctly. I modified the catalog and it
seems to be working fine. I also changed the prefix to "Caldwell" instead
of "C", it just appeared better to me with the fuller name, but you can
change it back to the standard "C" if you want.


On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, the custom catalog creation process in KStars is arcane and has
> not been explained clearly anywhere.
>
> The most confusing part is the numbers for the various types of
> objects (the "Tp" field). This can be found in the code in
> skyobject.h:
>
>     enum TYPE { STAR=0, CATALOG_STAR=1, PLANET=2, OPEN_CLUSTER=3,
> GLOBULAR_CLUSTER=4,
>                 GASEOUS_NEBULA=5, PLANETARY_NEBULA=6,
> SUPERNOVA_REMNANT=7, GALAXY=8,
>                 COMET=9, ASTEROID=10, CONSTELLATION=11, MOON=12,
> ASTERISM=13,
>                 GALAXY_CLUSTER=14, DARK_NEBULA=15, QUASAR=16,
> MULT_STAR=17, RADIO_SOURCE=18,
>                 SATELLITE=19, SUPERNOVA=20, TYPE_UNKNOWN };
>
> The rest of it is somewhat more straightforward. One creates a small
> pre-amble that has the vita of the catalog and the color to use to
> render it. This is followed by an abbreviated description of fields,
> which in my experience I've found to be case-sensitivie.
>
> The format is space-delimited with quoted text fields.
>
> ID, RA, Dc, Nm, Mg, Mj, Mn, PA, Ig, Tp are the field headers for the
> columns containing ID (number of the object in the catalog), RA (right
> ascension, I usually stick to the HH:MM:SS.s format and it works),
> Declination (I stick to ±DD:MM:SS), Name (long name in quotes),
> Magnitude, Major Axis (in arcmin), Minor Axis (also arcmin), Position
> Angle, Ignore (can be used multiple times for fields to be ignored),
> Type (from the numbers above).
>
> Then once you've formatted, give it the extension .cat so you can
> identify it, and then use Settings -> Configure KStars -> Catalog tab.
> click the "Load catalog" button, and point it to the file. Then, watch
> the console for output.
>
> Regards
> Akarsh
> _______________________________________________
> Kstars-devel mailing list
> Kstars-devel at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kstars-devel
>



-- 
Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kstars-devel/attachments/20160107/adde130a/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Caldwell.cat
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 6338 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kstars-devel/attachments/20160107/adde130a/attachment-0001.obj>