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Stars

Starplot has three officially supported star catalogs:

starplot.data.catalogs.BIG_SKY module-attribute 

BIG_SKY = Catalog(
    path=data_path / "stars.bigksy.0.1.2.mag16.parquet",
    url="https://github.com/steveberardi/starplot-bigsky/releases/download/v0.1.1/stars.bigksy.0.1.1.mag16.parquet",
)

Big Sky Catalog ~ 2.5M stars

This is the full version of the Big Sky Catalog, which includes 2,557,500 stars from Hipparcos, Tycho-1, and Tycho-2.

starplot.data.catalogs.BIG_SKY_MAG11 module-attribute 

BIG_SKY_MAG11 = Catalog(
    path=data_path / "stars.bigksy.0.1.2.mag11.parquet",
    url="https://github.com/steveberardi/starplot-bigsky/releases/download/v0.1.1/stars.bigksy.0.1.1.mag11.parquet",
)

Big Sky Catalog ~ 983,822 stars with limiting magnitude 11

This is an abridged version of the Big Sky Catalog.

starplot.data.catalogs.BIG_SKY_MAG9 module-attribute 

BIG_SKY_MAG9 = Catalog(
    path=data_path / "stars.bigksy.0.1.2.mag9.parquet",
    url="https://github.com/steveberardi/starplot-bigsky/releases/download/v0.1.1/stars.bigksy.0.1.1.mag9.parquet",
)

Big Sky Catalog ~ 136,125 stars with limiting magnitude 9

This is an abridged version of the Big Sky Catalog.