constellationship format

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Hi, I am beginning to find historical and cultural night sky constellations. I 
see that the constellationship.fab file Pystaratlas uses is the same format I 
found for the HA Rey asterisms and the same format mentioned in the Stellarium 
wiki http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Use#Sky_Cultures. Is 
this standard? Are there varieties of this?

I would like to include notes such as the resource that I found the 
constellation, but what are your thoughts on additional fields in my own 
constellationship file? I'd like to keep the database compatible for other 
projects such as this, so that it can easily be imported. Is there a standard 
format for this? besides the ABBREV N 111111 222222 segment pattern with N 
segments of constellation abbreviation ABBREV?

Since my main intent is to create a database of historical skies, how could I 
make my database as easy as possible for your users to import and integrate? 

Beginning of the project: https://github.com/digitalvapor/asterisms

Original issue reported on code.google.com by antivapor on 5 Nov 2014 at 6:43

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Hello Tommy,

Sorry for the delay answer but pystartatlas is an old project that I leave.

I borrow constellationship.fab from stellarium people. As far as I note there 
isn't a standard format for that. There are a lot of other cultures *fab files 
there..

For my catalog data I try to respect the original format as much as posible. 
Most data come form CDS http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR in 
pystaratlas case.

I visited your pages on github. For sure I download and try your soft. Very 
good work!

Cheers
Nacho

Original comment by mas.igna...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2014 at 12:53

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Many thanks!

Your project really helped me understand how to programmatically work with 
constellations. Also, the resulting charts you can make with pystaratlas are 
very cool! 

Original comment by antivapor on 9 Dec 2014 at 8:06