Questions regarding GSoC project

[Jasem Mutlaq]

So the idea for cross-identification is to build a table or virtual table
that would combine all sources into one consolidated source. Which deep-sky
catalogs are we using now in KStars? Take M1 for example, search for it in
Simbad:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=M1&submit=SIMBAD+search

You'd see it has 56 identifiers. M1 = NGC 1952 = Crab Nebula = ..etc

So I'm not sure what you mean by values, RA/DE ? You can use simbad and
other sources to find such information. I believe SkyCharts already have
such a catalog.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:36 PM Prasun Kumar <prasun.code at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> One of the tasks in the project is to cross identify any object before
> adding the contents of a catalog into the DSO database to see if it
> already exists. Regular searching wouldn't work here in my opinion as the
> values for same objects wouldn't be exactly same in all catalogs. I am
> stuck here and can't figure out how to achieve this cross identification. I
> would appreciate some help here.
>
> Thank you,
> Prasun
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 14:40 Jasem Mutlaq, <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Prasun,
>>
>> Regarding your first question, can you please be more specific about what
>> issue you are referring to exactly? For the second question, I would prefer
>> if the catalogs are sqlite on the server and downloaded by the user to be
>> used immediately, so yes this would require converting all existing
>> catalogs to sqlite.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Jasem Mutlaq
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 6:02 PM Prasun Kumar <prasun.code at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> I have some questions regarding the GSoC project.
>>> I cannot work out how to implement the cross identification of objects
>>> in the master DSO database for current as well as future catalogs. I would
>>> appreciate any help regarding the same.
>>> Also, for converting all catalogs to SQLite databases, should the
>>> downloadable addons be converted too? If yes, then should it be done after
>>> download or should the DB be stored on the server?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Prasun
>>>
>>>
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