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Add HR catalogue index
Suggested here on the Celestia Forums: there should be an hrindex.dat file that stores HR catalogue designations in much the same way as hdindex.dat and saoindex.dat
Also, celestia.cfg references a nonexistent "gliesexindex.dat". Luke thinks it was once there but later removed - does anyone know if that's the case?
@LukeCEL, is it possible for you to make a gliesexindex.dat and see if it works with the current code?
@LukeCEL do you know any sources besides simbad to retrieve this info?
Here are two preliminary files - hrindex.dat and gliesexindex.dat. I created them using the buildxindices.pl tool in the source code. Before running, I replaced all instances of HD
in the perl script with HR
or GJ
respectively.
There may be issues with these files. Notably, a few oddball stars are in the HR catalog but not in the HIP catalog. Same with GJ.
I put gliesexindex.dat in "data", and there's no change even though it's specified in celestia.cfg
I might be able to do something with the Gliese cross-index as part of stars.dat generation, since CNS5 includes Gaia cross-references.