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Steinicke
NGC/IC
- - - Yes No
Abell
Planetary
Nebulae
Catalog
- 86
Up to 19.5
magnitude
Yes No
Sharpless
HII region
Catalog
Sh2 - - Yes No
Hickson
Compact
Groups
- 99 - Yes No
The Stars section allows you to manage how stars are displayed in KStars. You
can choose to see the stars or not by checking the Star Catalogs checkbox. If
you check it, then multiple options will be enabled. Thus, you can set how many
stars are drawn on the map using the Star Density slider. You can also
customize KStars to toggle star name and magnitudes. Star names are drawn
next to bright stars. To display labels of fainter stars, increase the Label
density slider.
Below the stars section, the Deep-Sky Objects section controls the display of
several non-stellar object catalogs. You can toggle the display of Deep Sky
Objects and control the display of their names and magnitudes. By default, the list
of deep-sky objects includes the Messier, NGC and IC catalogs. Addons catalogs
are available via the Data →Download New Data...submenu where you can
download catalogs provided by KStars team and the community.
Furthermore, KStars supports import of custom catalogs. To import a raw ASCII
catalog data file into KStars, press the Import Catalog and follow the instructions.
To import a custom catalog already in KStars catalog format, press the Load
Catalog button. Each line in the custom catalog file should contain the following
space-separated fields:
For stars: type(0 for stars), RA, Dec, mag, SpType, name(optional)
For other types: type(3-8), RA, Dec, mag (optional), flux(optional), name(optional)
The types are:
· 0: star
· 1: star (in object catalog...probably don't want to use this)
· 2: planet (don't use this in custom catalog)
· 3: open cluster
· 4: globular cluster
· 5: gaseous nebula