Data sources | Celestial Data

For completion, we add the original data sources cited by (Frohn 2015):

asterisms.*:
- Saguaro Astronomy Club Asterisms
constellations.* and constellations.lines.*:
- IAU Constellation page, name positions and some line modifications by Olaf Frohn, , names in other languages from Wikipedia
constellations.bounds.*:
- Davenhall, A. C., and S. K. Leggett. 1989. “Catalogue of Constellation Boundary Data.” http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Cat?VI/49.
Traditional Chinese Constellations & Stars: constellations.cn.*, constellations.bounds.cn.*, constellations.lines.cn.*, starnames.cn.*:
- Stellarium skycultures data
dsos.6.*, dsos.8.^*, dsos.14.*:
- Saguaro Astronomy Club Database version 8.1
dsos.bright.*
- Frohn, Olaf. 2015. “d3-celestial.” https://github.com/ofrohn/d3-celestial/.
messier.* Messier objects:
- Messier Objects with Data, H.Frommert/seds.org
lg.* Local group and Milky Way halo:
- Frohn, Olaf. 2015. “d3-celestial.” https://github.com/ofrohn/d3-celestial/, from different sources: see blog, pages for complete list.
stars.6.*, stars.8.^*, stars.14.*:
- Anderson, E., and Ch. Francis. 2012. “XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation.” Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331–46. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773712050015.
starnames.* Star names and designations:
- Kostjuk, N. D. 2002. “VizieR Online Data Catalog: HD-DM-GC-HR-HIP-Bayer-Flamsteed Cross Index.” VizieR Online Data Catalog, IV/27A. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004yCat.4027....0K.
- Stellarium skycultures data for star name translations

References

Anderson, E., and Ch. Francis. 2012. “XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation.” Astronomy Letters 38 (5): 331–46. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773712050015.

Butler, H., M. Daly, A. Doyle, S. Gillies, S. Hagen, and T. Schaub. 2016. “The GeoJSON Format.”” RFC7946. RFC Editor. https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7946.

Davenhall, A. C., and S. K. Leggett. 1989. “Catalogue of Constellation Boundary Data.” http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Cat?VI/49.

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

Gliese, W., and H. Jahreiß. 1991. “Preliminary Version of the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars.” https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991adc..rept.....G.

Kostjuk, N. D. 2002. “VizieR Online Data Catalog: HD-DM-GC-HR-HIP-Bayer-Flamsteed Cross Index.” VizieR Online Data Catalog, IV/27A. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004yCat.4027....0K.

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.

Samus’, N. N., E. V. Kazarovets, O. V. Durlevich, N. N. Kireeva, and E. N. Pastukhova. 2017. “General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Version GCVS 5.1.” Astronomy Reports 61 (1): 80–88. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772917010085.

Smith, W. B. 1996. “VizieR Online Data Catalog: FK5 - SAO - HD - Common Name Cross Index.” VizieR Online Data Catalog, August, IV/22. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996yCat.4022....0S.