Tuesday, May 12, 2020

D3-Celestial: Better DSO Names

Now here is the final naming feature for D3-Celestial: Deep Space Objects (DSOs), again thanks to Stellarium, which provides names and translations for many DSOs through their fantastic sky cultures feature, already providing thranslations in many languages. With this it made sense to separate the names from the data, and put them in a common file named dsonames.json that is indexed by the most commn designator for each object, e.g. NGC 224 (the Andromade Galaxy) of M 45 (Pleiades).

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