brickbots / PiFinder

A plate solving telescope finder based around a Raspberry PI and RPI HQ Camera
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Add extra catalogs #27

Open mrosseel opened 1 year ago

mrosseel commented 1 year ago

taas 200 https://mikehotka.com/TAAS200.htm

Herschel400 https://nineplanets.org/herschel-400-list/

Herschel II https://www.astroleague.org/content/herschel-ii-observing-program (there's an excel sheet)

Herschel 2500 https://nineplanets.org/herschel-400-list/

Heschel Hustle https://www.astroleague.org/herschel-hustle/

Barnard http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?VII/220A#/browse

Saguaro asterisms and others: https://www.saguaroastro.org/sac-downloads/

Astronomical League open clusters: https://www.astroleague.org/open-cluster-observing-program/

Sharpless 2: https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?VII/20#/browse

200 planetary nebulas (can we use this data?) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zw7Xof6rqAoO3xGrsMW6QK8zR8KP4c3y/view or https://www.deepskylog.org/index.php?indexAction=listaction&activateList=true&public=1&listname=Fred%27s%20200%20planetaire%20nevels or https://app.box.com/s/j6bpptvsedhmoezmuso6

More unique amateur catalogs! https://sctscopes.net/Observing_with_an_SCT/Observing_Lists/observing_lists.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240210155225/https://sctscopes.net/Observing_with_an_SCT/Observing_Lists/observing_lists.html

https://www.rasc.ca/double-stars

melotte: https://clearskies.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Melotte-Star-Clusters-index.pdf

Another list to get inspiration from: https://www.astroplanner.net/catalogues.html

mrosseel commented 1 year ago
brickbots commented 1 year ago

@mrosseel I'm working on the image path population and ran into a small issue re-creating the database. The sacr.desc file is missing from the check-in. I'm adding a temp one for now, but if you have a nice description for this catalog, please update this file :+1: