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Celestial Data


A compilation of celestial data files

DOI

This project provides several datasets in GeoJSON and GeoPackage format of celestial objects as of J2000 epoch.

The original files were provided on the d3-celestial plugin (Frohn 2015) under BSD 3-Clause. The datasets produced on this project consists on the same data provided on d3-celestial plugin processed with the R package sf (Pebesma 2018) to ensure its validity:

  • The spatial data objects are bounded to \([-180, -90, 180, 90]\).

  • Date is provided on WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984 (EPSG:4326).

  • All geometries valid as per ST_IsValid (GEOS 3.9.3).

Distribution

The data can be accessed from several API endpoints:


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Data

Data is provided in GeoJSON (*.geojson) and GeoPackage (*.gpkg) format. Additionally, for GeoJSON formats a minified version (*.min.geojson) is also provided.

The data source can be found on the corresponding GitHub repo.

List of files provided
  • asterisms.geojson
  • asterisms.gpkg
  • asterisms.min.geojson
  • constellations.borders.cn.geojson
  • constellations.borders.cn.gpkg
  • constellations.borders.cn.min.geojson
  • constellations.borders.geojson
  • constellations.borders.gpkg
  • constellations.borders.min.geojson
  • constellations.bounds.cn.geojson
  • constellations.bounds.cn.gpkg
  • constellations.bounds.cn.min.geojson
  • constellations.bounds.geojson
  • constellations.bounds.gpkg
  • constellations.bounds.min.geojson
  • constellations.cn.csv
  • constellations.cn.geojson
  • constellations.cn.gpkg
  • constellations.cn.min.geojson
  • constellations.csv
  • constellations.geojson
  • constellations.gpkg
  • constellations.lines.cn.geojson
  • constellations.lines.cn.gpkg
  • constellations.lines.cn.min.geojson
  • constellations.lines.geojson
  • constellations.lines.gpkg
  • constellations.lines.min.geojson
  • constellations.min.geojson
  • dsonames.cn.csv
  • dsonames.csv
  • dsos.14.geojson
  • dsos.14.gpkg
  • dsos.14.min.geojson
  • dsos.20.geojson
  • dsos.20.gpkg
  • dsos.20.min.geojson
  • dsos.6.geojson
  • dsos.6.gpkg
  • dsos.6.min.geojson
  • dsos.bright.geojson
  • dsos.bright.gpkg
  • dsos.bright.min.geojson
  • lg.geojson
  • lg.gpkg
  • lg.min.geojson
  • messier.geojson
  • messier.gpkg
  • messier.min.geojson
  • mw.geojson
  • mw.gpkg
  • mw.min.geojson
  • starnames.cn.csv
  • starnames.csv
  • stars.14.geojson
  • stars.14.gpkg
  • stars.14.min.geojson
  • stars.6.geojson
  • stars.6.gpkg
  • stars.6.min.geojson
  • stars.8.geojson
  • stars.8.gpkg
  • stars.8.min.geojson

See additional details on Data Description.

Citation

Please cite these datasets as:

Frohn, O., & Hernangómez, D. (2023). Celestial Data [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7561601

A BibTeX entry:


@misc{frohnhernangomez:2023,
    title        = {Celestial Data},
    author       = {Olaf Frohn and Diego Hernangómez},
    year         = 2023,
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.7561601},
    url          = {https://dieghernan.github.io/celestial_data/},
}

References

Frohn, Olaf. 2015. “d3-celestial” https://github.com/ofrohn/d3-celestial/.

Pebesma, Edzer. 2018. “Simple Features for R: Standardized Support for Spatial Vector Data.” The R Journal 10 (1): 439446. https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-009.