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2022 06 12
This project has been copied from kstars.
It is a static library that provides a way to find trixels in star catalogues
from equatorial coordinates.
Trixels are a triangle projected on a sphere that follow a hierarchical
decomposition, HTM stands for Hierarchical Triangular Mesh.

For more information see:
- Original source tree of the independent project inside KStars: https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/tree/master/kstars/htmesh
- KStars catalogues documentation: https://api.kde.org/kstars/html/Stars.html
- External documentation on the HTM format: http://www.skyserver.org/htm/
- HTMesh class reference: https://api.kde.org/kstars/html/classHTMesh.html
- How it all started in Siril: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kstars-devel/2022-June/007521.html
- An example implementation of a bin file reader: https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/blob/master/kstars/data/tools/nomadbinfiletester.c
- How to install the USNO-NOMAD simplified catalogue in KStars: http://knro.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-to-get-100-million-stars-in-kstars.html

Build this project with the following commands:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-I.. " ..
$ make