Some or all of the information in this section is no longer accurate. For mmap loading system memory is not a limit any more, see next section. (MNG managed to load file 7 with 512 M ram, but only just. The RAM needed column applies for the case of ordinary catalog loading at startup, and is an estimate. Here is a list of all available catalogues. Please see the stellarium README file for the conditions, under which you may redistribute data files originating from NOMAD. The rest (brighter ones) from Tycho2 and Hipparcos. Only the smaller four of these files come with Stellarium in the main package to keep the size manageable.Ībout 99% of all these stars come from the NOMAD catalog (Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset version 1, by USNO). These files can be found in the /stars/default/. In Stellarium version 0.9.0, star catalogues are split into 9 files, which contain stars of varying brightness.

TODO: Describe the difference in locations - user vs. This warning has been here since some undetermined moment. This page itself should be updated, archived or deleted. It may be relevant to an older version of Stellarium, or it may not be relevant at all. Some or all of the information on this page is no longer accurate.

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