Format-Specification: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=135 Name: Tycho2 catalogue for KStars Maintainer: Noel David Torres Taño Source: http://edu.kde.org/kstars/downloads/tycho2_mag_12.5-1.1.tar.bz2 Files: deepstars.dat Copyright: 2008 Akarsh Simha , Jason Harris X-Original-Data-Copyright: 2000 E. Høg, C. Fabricius, V.V. Makarov, S. Urban, T. Corbin, G. Wycoff, U. Bastian, P. Schwekendiek, and A. Wicenec 1997 ESA (Hipparcos mission) X-Reference: Astron. Astrophys. 355.2, P L19-L22 (2000) : The Tycho-2 Catalogue of the 2.5 Million Brightest Stars. X-Original-Data-License: Public Domain (as data has been retrieved by Authors from NASA ADC at http://web.archive.org/web/20060908122029/adc.astro.umd.edu/cgi-bin/adc/cat.pl?/catalogs/1/1259/ whose policy is PD, as stated in http://web.archive.org/web/20070303235508/http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/questions_feedback.html#policies, see below) All ADC data are public domain unless otherwise stated in the "ReadMe" file. The data are for scientific use only and have no commercial value. License: GPL This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 1. . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA . On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 1 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1'. Comment: How to edit binary kstars dat files? Answer by Akarsh Simha The file kstars/data/README.binfileformat explains the binary file format used in the .dat file in some detail. . The tools in the kstars/data/tools/ directory can be used to generate the data files from SQL databases containing the star data. The purpose and usage of the tools are explained in the README.tools in the same directory. . The source for the .dat files is from ASCII data files supplied by USNO (for the NOMAD catalog) and (for example) NASA (for the Tycho catalog). The ASCII files are rather large to be part of the release, but I think I will some day (most likely during this summer) write a script that converts the binary data file back into an SQL database. . The SQL database details are still undocumented, but the source code in perl contains a "CREATE TABLE" instruction that explains what fields the scripts expect in the database. Files: debian Copyright: 2010 Noel David Torres Taño License: GPL-2 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA . On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.