Investigate using corrected NGC database

brickbots / PiFinder

A plate solving telescope finder based around a Raspberry PI and RPI HQ Camera

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Investigate using corrected NGC database #128

Open mrosseel opened 8 months ago

mrosseel commented 8 months ago

We are using the standard NGC database, whereas there are a few 'corrected' NGC databases going around. It would be good to check these out and see if we can use them.

Steinicke (needs attribution): http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm

More license friendly: https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC/

brickbots commented 4 months ago

Sadly, the data quality on OpenNGC is not fantastic, so I think we should go with Steinicke. I'll reach out!