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Meteor Showers
Stephen Hutson's terrific databases
of meteor shower radiants (updated for 2001). Both IMO and RASC datasets
are included. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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GCVS (Variable Stars)
The General Catalog of Variable
Stars was submitted by Marion Schmitz and includes over 31,000 variable
stars. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Local Group
Bill Arnett's compilation of galaxies in the Local Group.
(Macintosh
or Windows) |
GCVS (Variable Stars)
Extracted from the General Catalog
of Variable Stars (GCVS) Vol. IV & V and Hipparcos Catalog of Periodic
Variables & Unsolved Variables. Only stars brighter than 10th magnitude
at maximum are included. Compiled by Ray Colley. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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AAVSO Variable Stars
The 5641 variable stars in the AAVSO catalog, compiled
by Mike Fikes. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Planetary Nebulae
Bill Arnett's planetary nebulae by Perek & Kohoutek.
(Macintosh
or Windows) |
LX200 Alignment Stars
The 33 stars used to align a Meade LX200 as compiled
by Bill Arnett. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
SAC Doubles
Bill Arnett's double stars from the Saguaro Astronomical
Club. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Supernova Remnants
Leigh Palmer's Galactic Supernova Remnant
catalog compiled by Dr. David Green of the University of Cambridge. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Common
Names
Common
names of Deep Sky objects
compiled by Hartmut Frommert, revised by Bill Arnett. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Extrasolar Planets
Catalog of stellar bodies with
planetary systems. Based on data from Alex Willman's Extrasolar planets.
(Macintosh
or Windows)
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Extra-solar Planets
Confirmed planets around main
sequence stars, compiled by Ed Totman. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Herschel 400
Compiled by Michael Desjarlais.
(Macintosh or Windows) |
UGC Galaxies
Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies, compiled
by Bill Arnett. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Celestron AAM Alignment
Stars
Markers for the 28 primary alignment
stars for the Celestron Advanced AstroMaster, compiled by Greg Miller. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Finest NGC objects
A subset of the NGC catalog which
only includes those objects in the RASC's List of the Finest NGC objects.
Compiled by Richard Weatherston. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Nexstar Alignment Stars
The 40 alignment stars for the
Celestron Nexstar 5/8, created by Brandon Beretta. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Hubble Observations
A Starry Night database
showing the position of each HST image in the sky. The data shows which
camera took the image and provides a link to the actual image on the internet
along with links to more information. There are two different versions
of the database. Use the smaller file if you have a limited amount of
RAM (less than 32-48MB). The larger data file contains information about
the intended target, the date and time the image was taken, the exposure
length, etc. You can still get this data using the smaller file but you
will have to link out to the internet to get it.
Small File (4 MB)
(Macintosh
or Windows)
Large File (6 MB) (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Nexstar 5/8 Catalog
All 10384 numbered stars in the
Nexstar 5/8 hand controller's database. Created by Alan Touchberry. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Lumicon NGC-SkyVector
Digital Setting Circles
Stars from the SkyVector catalog
(most are variable or multiple stars). Created by Alan Touchberry. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Sky Commander Alignment
Stars
The 39 primary alignment stars
and Pseudo North used to align the Sky Commander DSC. Compiled by Allan
Keller. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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SkySensor 2000 Alignment
Stars
The 35 alignment stars and Polaris
used to align the SkySensor 2000. Compiled by Bob Hillier. (Macintosh
or Windows) |
Caldwell Catalog
NEW!!
Patrick Caldwell-Moore's list of 109 non-Messier deep-sky objects.
Created by Charles Gagné. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Pulsar Catalog NEW!!
A catalog of 706 pulsars. Compiled
by Ulf
Teräs. Please check author's
webpage for details. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Quasars and Active Galaxies
Catalog NEW!!
A catalog containing more than
18 000 quasars, BL Lac objects and active galaxies. Compiled by Ulf
Teräs. Please check author's
webpage for details. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Globular Clusters Catalog
NEW!!
A catalog of 147 globular clusters
in the Milky Way. Compiled by Ulf
Teräs. Please check author's
webpage for details. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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Planetary Satellites Database
NEW!!
A catalog containing all known moons of Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Compiled by Mike Parkes. (Macintosh
or Windows)
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These files are in compressed format. After you have uncompressed them, you
will find both the compiled databases and the text files which they were built
from. Move the files ending in ".ssd" to the "Starry Night Pro\Starry Night
Pro Data" folder. The next time you run Starry Night Pro, you should see additional
options in the menus for these datasets.
The databases on this page are free to use but should not be redistributed
without the author's permission. If you build a database that you would like
to include on this page, please send
us an email.
Maybe! We have changed the database format for Starry Night Pro, so the old
databases will not work in their compiled form. However, if you have the original
text files which the databases were built from, you can recompile these databases
in the Starry Night Pro format by using the "File | Build Data File" command
in the Starry Night Pro menu.
There is a folder called "Database Examples" on the Starry Night Pro CD. Inside
this folder is a read-me file explaining how to build databases, as well as
a sample database text file and the text file we used to create the NGC-IC database
in Starry Night Pro, which will show you the format you need to follow when
building your own databases.
