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Stars: magnitude 8

Stars: magnitude 8

Star positions and attributes with a nominal apparent magnitude limit of 8 in this repository, derived from d3-celestial. GeoJSON and GeoPackage contain J2000 point geometries, identifiers, magnitudes and color indices; they do not calculate the current sky.

41411 features · Point

GeoJSON · 8.12 MB GeoJSON (minified) · 6.29 MB GeoPackage · 5.56 MB

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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