XEphem Catalogs

The star catalogs in this repository are for the XEphem serious interactive astronomical software ephemeris.

Official

• GSC2201/ — The 1.3 GB Hubble Guide Star Catalog 2.2.0.1 which includes stars in the magnitude range 10.0–18.5. Though traditionally installed at /usr/local/xephem/catalogs/GSC2201, you can install the catalog anywhere as long as you enter its path in the “GSC 2.2 Directory” field in XEphem’s “Field Stars” window. See the Reference Manual’s Field Stars section for more details.

• Official/ — Large collection of catalogs (weighing a total 1.1 GB) that, in the old days, shipped with XEphem on its installation media. Most of the catalogs are in the .edb text format, though two are in the binary .xe2 format and two are directories containing files in the original catalog format.

User contributed

Three catalogs have been contributed by Steve Mencinsky:

• M31globulars.edb — a list of principle globular clusters in galaxy M31.

• SMC.edb — a list of deep sky objects in the Magellanic Clouds.

• recons100.edb — is the complete census as of January 1, 2000, of objects outside our solar system known within 10 parsecs.