[sac-forum] Re: UCAC4 all-sky star catalog
- From: "Richard Harshaw" <rharshaw2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 21:26:13 -0700
RealSky is a Bisque product that accesses either a set of 14 CDs (low
density version) or 110 CDs (high resolution version) of the POSS II plates.
I once had the 110 CD version on an external hard drive, but it died long
ago....
Richard Harshaw
Cave Creek, AZ
Remember: your mind works faster than you think.
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On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 9:16 PM
To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sac-forum] Re: UCAC4 all-sky star catalog
What relevance does the Real Sky have to all this discussion? Any at all?
Was this a S&T or Software Bisque product?
Stan
On 3/8/2013 7:57 PM, Richard Harshaw wrote:
> Nope. I checked with Bisque today and you need TheSkyX to use it; I have
> TheSky 6, an obsolete version. $255 upgrade. Hoo boy.
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> Richard Harshaw
> Cave Creek, AZ
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> Remember: your mind works faster than you think.
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> On Behalf Of Jimmy Ray
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 7:22 PM
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> Subject: [sac-forum] Re: UCAC4 all-sky star catalog
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> What I am looking for is an easy way to read / search the file. Any
> success with that?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jimmy Ray
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> On Behalf Of Michael Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:56 PM
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> Subject: [sac-forum] UCAC4 all-sky star catalog
>
> USNO published their latest all-sky star catalog, UCAC4, last year.
> This catalog is complete to 16th magnitude and features much better
> positional and proper motion data than its predecessors. It is
> gradually being integrated into many planetarium programs. If you have
> a program which can reference the catalog data, and are interested in
> obtaining a copy of the catalog files, you can request a DVD from the
> Naval Observatory or download the files from a CDS (Centre de Données
> astronomiques de
> Strasbourg) mirror. The 900 data files in the catalog, combined with a
> few dozen support files, occupy 8.5 GB, so the download option takes a
> while. It took me most of the weekend, but I was able to grab the full
> set and can make them available in a ZIP file (only 5.5 GB
> :-) on USB flash if you want to get a copy from me. I'll bring the
> flash with me to AAMM next week and again to the club meeting on the
> 22nd. I'm hoping before then to have signatures (hashes) of the files
> from USNO to ensure that none of the data are corrupted. It only takes
> a few minutes to copy the ZIP file from the flash.
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> If you're interested in copying my data prior to the AAMM, contact
> me off list and we can make arrangements to meet up somewhere convenient.
> It's not like I'll be out observing over the weekend as I'd planned :-(.
>
> -- Mike --
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> cal_donley@xxxxxxx
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