CdC Sharpless Catalogue

[groberts]

Can anyone please direct me to a download source for the Sharpless Catalogue for use with Cartes du Ciel?

Graham

[Dr_Ju_ju]

As far as I can tell, you have to FTP download from here http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?VII/20  but here is the catalog data file (catalog.datsimple text)

[SteveWolves]

I have version 4 and it looks like its in there by default.

[SteveWolves]

Yes they are there in v4

[groberts]

Thanks guys but I'm still struggling with this!

You'll see from the screen grab below that SH2 is indeed indicated in theSetUp catalogue list but when I look at the directory there's nothing there.  I therefore downloaded the given catalogue into the said directory (cat/sh2) and it still doesn't come up when I search for an SH2 object in CdC. 

I suspect I'm doing something wrong  - any thoughts please?

Graham

[Patrick Chevalley]

To get all of this you have to download "DSO catalogs" from https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download#additional_catalog

 

[groberts]

Thanks Patrick - once in the correct directory do I then need to do anything else in the SetUp / Catalogue window to get things working?

Graham 

[groberts]

Bingo! Merci Patrick 

[Patrick Chevalley]

Good!

For other that can read this: after installing the catalogues files you need to open Setup/Catalog to check the ones you want, the Path box is no more in red colour and it work.