Add entries to the GOTO Catalog

[Oberon510]

Hi,

I have a bunch of SH2 sites that I want to bulk add to the GOTO catalog. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,
Ken

[Oberon510]

I saw the post of putting a file in a certain format into the APPDATA directory. I suppose my new question is whether there is a database somewhere in that format I can copy rather than individually converting each entry to decimal format from another hr/min, etc format?

Thanks,
Ken

[admin]

Hi Ken,

some people have created and shared catalog files for particular target lists - see this post which links to the CloudyNights forum post and the actual shared folder : viewtopic.php?p=44253#p44253

Unfortunately if nothing in that list helps then you would have to do the co-ordinate conversion from DD MM SS to decimal degrees (decimal hours for RA). I expect it could be done in Excel by splitting the input co-ordinates into columns on the space character, then writing a formula to add the degrees column + 1/60 of the minutes + 1/3600 of the seconds.

cheers,

Robin

[Jean-Francois]

Hello,

Robin ... you forget that the coordinates can be in decimal or DD MM SS.
Look at the message: viewtopic.php?p=44252#p44252

Here after paste the line from the message:

SharpCap_DSA_coordinates.jpg (139.47 KiB) Viewed 922 times

Regards,
Jean-Francois

[Jean-Francois]

Note that the line could be:

HD000319|A1V|Miles|00 07 46.89955|-22 30 30.8173|5.942|||
or
HD000319|A1V|Miles|00:07:46.89955|-22:30:30.8173|5.942|||

It works with or without the ":"

[Oberon510]

Thanks Robin and Jean-Francois - will test them out.

Ken

[admin]

Hi Jean-Francois - well remembered... I had forgotten that little trick!

cheers,

Robin