What star names do you want to add? Traditional names stars are visible without optical instruments (mag<6.5 or so? What's the dimmest named star in traditional lists?), and these should all have Hipparchos numbers.
G. On Do, 23.05.2013, 17:39, Shadiq Ammar wrote: > 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. >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > 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
