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Celestial Data

This repository contains 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 on this repository 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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Citation

Please cite these datasets as:

Frohn O, Hernangómez D (2023). “Celestial Data.” doi:10.5281/zenodo.7561601 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7561601, https://dieghernan.github.io/celestial_data/.

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/},
}

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 https://github.com/dieghernan/celestial_data/tree/main/data.

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 https://dieghernan.github.io/celestial_data/data

Original data sources

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.