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animationfan13 has SpaceEngine

13 Dec, 2024 @ 9:01pm

How to get data for a catalog csv file

I wanna try and add real stars in other galaxies all at once as there was a addon that added real LMC stars, for that I wanna try getting data from the SIMBAD database, does anyone know how?

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HarbingerDawn [developer] 15

14 Dec, 2024 @ 4:20am

You could go to Simbad and search by identifier to look up specific stars. Or you can search for objects in a given area of the sky, but you'd have to filter out the probably 99% of objects that would be useless to you. Your best option is to use/create some program that can query the database and only return objects that 1) are stars, and 2) have extremely small parallax values, but I don't know how to do that myself.