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- Stars3D Plugins for WorldWind 1.3.2 or above (maybe...)
- Version 1.1, december 2005
- Patrick Murris - http://www.alpix.com/3d/worldwin/
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- What
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- The Stars3D plugin renders a star background around the world
- and let you choose between different subsets of the Hipparcos
- Catalog. Number of stars range between 5000 and 31000.
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- The plugin appears as a layer in the Layer Manager (key L).
- Right click on the layer to switch star catalogues.
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- All settings are saved.
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- Install
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- 1. You need WW 1.3.2 or 1.3.3.1 (as of today). Wont work in 1.3.1.
- 2. Unzip in your WW Plugins directory. That should add a folder named 'Stars3D'.
- Note: if you dont already have a 'Plugins' directory inside
- Program Files/Nasa/WorldWind 1.3, then create one.
- 3. Start WW and the new plugin should be listed in Plug-ins->Load/Unload.
- 4. Once loaded, it becomes a layer in the Layer Manager (key L)
- 5. Right Click on the layer for settings (properties)
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- Uninstall
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- 1. Delete the Plugins/Stars3D directory
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- Notes
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- Adding star catalogues
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- The actual catalogues are subsets of the Hipparcos catalog (ESA 1997) extracted
- with the VizieR Astronomical Server at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr.
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- This plugin reads an ascii '.tsv' file with ';' separated values that
- looks like that:
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- recno;HIP;RAhms;DEdms;Vmag;B-V
- ;;;;mag;mag
- --------;------;-----------;-----------;-----;------
- 122; 122;00 01 35.85;-77 03 55.1; 4.78; 1.254
- 154; 154;00 01 57.59;-06 00 50.3; 4.37; 1.631
- 300; 301;00 03 44.37;-17 20 09.5; 4.55;-0.047
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- This version looks for the fields RAhms, DEdms, Vmag and B-V which can be
- in any order.
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- The vizieR interface allows to output such ascii files. Just make sure
- the list contains the above fields - which are not always available in catalogs
- other than Hipparcos and Tycho.
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- When your list is ready, just drop the .tsv file in the Plugins/Stars3D/ folder.
- It will become available in the layer settings.
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- Open source
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- This plugin is not compiled and its source can be found in Stars3D.cs.
- Feel free to use, abuse, divert and copy any part of it. Thats how I got started.
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- Many thanks to the WorldWind community for their efforts and feedback,
- especialy Bjorn Reppen (http://www.mashiharu.com/) for his plugin architecture,
- usefull tips and inspiring examples, and Bull (http://www.bullsworld.co.uk/) for
- pointing out the star backgrounds at NASA and pushing this starfield idea.
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- Patrick Murris
- Montreal - Nice
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