Star Catalogue

[J_barkerr1]

Hi there,

My name is Jamie. I am a 3rd-year student at university, studying aerospace engineering. For my final year project, I am designing, developing and coding software for a star tracker for unmanned aircraft. I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to the Astronomy community and finding a star catalogue is proving to be difficult. I only need to be able to have access to 4 or 5 stars which then from later software would be able to be identified and then positioned to update the INS for my navigation system. I have found the use of Stellarium helpful but can't find the source code for the stars. If anyone has any other catalogues where you can find all the information for stars would be extremely helpful and any ideas/guidance you may have is welcome with open arms.

The info can either be in readable data for code or just basic information which can be converted to usable data.

Many Thanks, Jamie

[inFINNity Deck]

Hi Jamie,

try this one:

https://www.astro.rug.nl/~gaia/

I have never worked with it, but I think this is what you need.

HTH,

Nicolàs