Dear Georg,
Thank you for your reply. Is it possible that a star doesn't have hipp
catalog number? like the the star in this stellarium screen shoot?
http://i.imgur.com/8Dz6nfI.png and there are many of them. How do you
assign a name to them?
Thank you
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Georg Zotti <georg.zo...@univie.ac.at>wrote:
> 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.
> >
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