Chinese constellation lines
Line patterns illustrating traditional Chinese constellation figures in the J2000 celestial reference, with identifiers, names and English labels. Available as GeoJSON and GeoPackage derived from d3-celestial; degenerate source lines were removed during processing.
255 features · MultiLineString
These are J2000 celestial coordinates encoded as geographic geometries for use in GIS software. They do not describe locations on Earth or the current sky above an observer. Minified GeoJSON removes whitespace; it does not simplify geometry.
Derived from d3-celestial by Olaf Frohn and processed with R and sf by Diego Hernangómez. Distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license.
The DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7561601 identifies the Celestial Data collection. Downloads here follow the repository's main branch and may differ from an archived release.
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