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<h1>Star Charts</h1>
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How to create a star chart from a catalogue provided by Virtual Observatory.
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<h1>Open Cluster NGC 637</h1>
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NGC 637 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. Stars are distributed
randomly but the look is similar to upside-down silhouette of owl:
Wings are spread and two brighter stars placed to its head suggests
big eyes. The cluster is looking pretty good in a binocular.
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<h2>Catalogue Search</h2>
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To get coordinates of NGC 637, we are searching a selected
catalogue UCAC5 with center α = 25.775° and δ = 64.03°
and the cone radius 0.1°:
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$ munipack cone -o ngc637.xml -c UCAC5 -r 0.1 -- 25.775 64.03
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All found stars are saved to VOTable (Virtual Observatory transfer table).
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<h2>Plotting</h2>
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The output VOTable can be converted to SVG and be used for drawing of star charts:
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$ munipack votable -o ngc637.svg -pa 25.78 -pd 64.03 -ps 2000 -ml 12 \
--col-mag f.mag --col-ra RAJ2000 --col-dec DEJ2000 ngc637.xml
$ firefox ngc637.svg
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<figcaption>Open Cluster NGC 637 (<a href="ngc637.svg">file</a>)</figcaption>
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<h2>Tips</h2>
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<li>Best viewed with Internet browsers (Firefox, Chrome).</li>
<li>Try interesting regions like globular clusters, neighborhood of bright galaxies</li>
<li>SVG format is a kind of XML format and can be easy modified: added text descriptions, graphics elements like axes, etc.</li>
<li>The output can be easy included to web pages.</li>
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<h2>See Also</h2>
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<li><a href="man_votable.html">VOTable</a></li>
<li><a href="man_cone.html">Cone Search</a></li>
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