Thanks SpaceEngineer, now I'm starting to grasp the tools workings. I compiled an addon that merge Messier numbers to catalog objects where they were missing, if it helps. It's here.
Thank you, I added Messier designation to SE catalog. Only two Messier objects are missing now: M 40 and M 24. The first one is an optical double star, I added it to the catalog. The second one is the Sagittarius star cloud, I don't know how to add it to SE))
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Edit: wait, there are negative RAs?
LOL indeed. Anyway, softwarly speaking, negative Ras are not prohibitedm and they has been loaded with glich like Decs. But it is fixed now.
second one is the Sagittarius star cloud. I don't know how to add the last one))
well, it's a rather large array of stars, isn't it? When you'll add constellations, I'm assuming here you'll create some sort of "super optical star cluster", you could use the same system to assemble those stars, at least their borders, with a "constellation-like" object and name it M 24. or something like that :)
moreover, you'll have the ability to create boundaries for an "Orion arm" or "Terran galactic empire", visible and selectable from outside the galaxy...
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I added M 24 as a star cluster with new special type "Part" (part of the galaxy) and no procedural stars. It could be displayed in GUI as "Star cloud M 24".
Cor Caroli - alfa CVn is a binary, not yet in the catalog. I've made a patch with data I've found, to be placed in data/catalogs, it will replace the Hipparcos entry.
(90) Antiope is now binary instead of a single one.
Here's why I decided to make both binary asteroids just be classified as "Asteroid"; a dwarf moon would reveal it position amongst single asteroids. If they don't have a barycenter, the would-be moon would be scorched. A dwarf moon wouldn't make sense since the dwarf moon would overlap with the main body.
HD 45688 it's a star with a brown dwarf as companion. in Catalogs0974.pak there's an entry under stars/browndwarfs-bin.sc but there's no entry in /planets for this barycenter, and it returns wrong data. The missing code in /planets/browndwarfs-bin.sc should be:
Here, several stars have problems: 1. S. Dor, current lum; 268 000, actual lum; 910 000 - 2. ETA Car, current lum; 14 249, actual lum; 5 000 000 - 3. Rigel, current lum; 51 711, actual lum; 120 000 - 4. Betelgeuze, current lum; 9 446, actual lum; 90 000... and many many many many more (almost all) luminous stars are much dimmer than reality. Why, i ask??
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