starplot-hyperleda

HyperLeda catalog builder for Starplot, which contains 983,261 galaxies (plotted above as pink markers).

1. make install to create virtual environment
2. make build to build catalog Parquet file
3. make release to create release (only run from GitHub action)

Use this Catalog with Starplot

hyperleda = Catalog(
    path="hyperleda.0.1.0.parquet",  # or specify your custom data path
    url="https://github.com/steveberardi/starplot-hyperleda/releases/download/v0.1.0/hyperleda.0.1.0.parquet",
)

m31 = DSO.get(m="31", catalog=hyperleda)

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Acknowledgements

Data for this catalog was obtained from:

• HyperLeda - Catalog of galaxies : VII/237 (positions, geometry)
• Automatic extraction for millions of galaxies. G. Paturel, Y. Fang, R. Garnier, C. Petit and J. Rousseau; 2000, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 146, 19 (magnitudes in B band, via HyperLeda database)