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Chinese deep-sky object names


Chinese deep-sky object names

A CSV name table for Chinese deep-sky designations from d3-celestial, with identifiers, names, English translations and pinyin. It contains no geometry and complements the celestial object catalogs rather than providing another set of sky positions.

6 rows · name table

This CSV contains names and identifiers without geometry. Use the identifiers to relate names to the relevant catalogs, checking their catalog conventions first.

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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