This is terrific work Patrick, thanks very much! Also thanks for
providing that star catalog setting.
Sander
Patrick Chevalley wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The UCAC3 files for CdC are now ready for download.
> You can get them from:
> http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download_catalogs
> <http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download_catalogs>
> or directly:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/2-catalogs/Stars/UCAC3/
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/2-catalogs/Stars/UCAC3/>
>
> The catalog is split in three part so you can get only the zone
> visible from your area.
> ucac3-catalog-south.zip : South zone -90 to -30
> ucac3-catalog-equator.zip : Equatorial zone -30 to +22.5
> ucac3-catalog-north.zip : North zone +22.5 to +90
> A fourth file ucac3-index.zip contain the optional full search index
> for all the zones.
> Each file is about 500MB is size.
>
> Extract all this zip under ciel\cat or share/skychart/cat. As each
> file is autonomous there is two common file on each, when prompted for
> replacement you can respond yes or no without effect.
>
> The information for each star include: identifier, RA, Dec, aperture
> magnitude, proper motion, approximate color index.
> I finally not upload the smaller version with less information.
> Because of a good compression factor on the full version the size
> difference was not so big (about x1.5) and if you can download 300MB
> you can also download 500MB.
>
> Remember to install and activate Tycho2 at the same time for the
> bright stars.
> My preferred star catalog setting for general use is now:
> BSC 0 - 10 (0 - 360)
> Tycho2 0 - 6 (0 - 45)
> 3UC 0 - 3 (0 - 5)
>
> Patrick
>
>
