Dear Ammar, it's far simpler. Star names are part of a sky culture, therefore they are stored there, in the star_names.fab file. This is a text file which lists Hipparchos numbers and the given name.
Kind regards, Georg On Do, 23.05.2013, 14:01, Shadiq Ammar wrote: > My current objective are adding star names to unnamed stars on stellarium. > After exploring stellarium stars *.cat* files and trying to convert it > using /util/ConvertCatToNative i notice that file format are still in hex. > I never handles hex files before.... I'm trying to understands it, but > probably wrong. From what I read here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.9.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.9.1-1.pdf > (Appendix > E: Starts Catalog) > > table E-10 on above document. > column name: hip, offset: 0, siz:3, description: hipparcos catalogue > number > > Implies that the first 3 byte on stars_0_0v0_1.cat are hipparcos catalog > number, but I don't know which one (signed/unsigned int 8/16/32/64) my > guess is the unsigned 16 bit. (btw, I'm using Bless Hex Editor to read the > file). > > Could anyone give me pointer of how to read and edit the star catalog? > such > as where the record of a star ended and which table (at the document > above), what files do I have to pay attention to, how to add or edit a > star > name etc? > > Thank you. > > -- > Ammar Shadiq > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring > service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may_______________________________________________ > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list > Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
