Fchart3 is a project designed to create high quality astronomical charts. It is written in Python using data from Stellarium, Kstars and HnSky, including 300 million stars. It can be used to create both offline charts with output to PDF or online interactive charts as can be seen in the case of project CzSky.
Online interactive version is available on project CzSky:
Install:
Download this project and
python setup.py install
Run: fchart3 --help to show commandline options.
The sources of original project fcharts can be found at:
However it relies on numarray which has been deprecated in favor of numpy.
Previous fchart sources for python2.7 can be found at:
This repository contains updated sourcecode so that the code may run with numpy.
This repository also contains following catalogs in the data/catalogs directory:
bsc5.datcatalogue of bright starsconstbnd.datCatalogue of Constellation Boundary DataConstellationLines.dat- constellation lines from bscdeep_sky.hnd- catalog of deepsky objects from Hnsky created by Han Kleijn (https://www.hnsky.org/software.htm)deepstars.dat- tycho2 catalog from kstarsnamedstars.dat- catalog of named stars from kstarsstarnames.dat- star names from kstarsstars_0_0v*.cat- UsnoNomad catalogs from stellariumunamedstars.dat- catalog of unamed stars from kstars
DSO catalogs replaced now by catalog from hnsky:
revic.dat- Revised IC Cataloguerevngc.txt- Revised New General Cataloguesac.txt- Saguaro Astronomy Club Database
- Michiel Brentjens - original author
- Austin Riba - modern fchart for python 2.7, numpy. https://github.com/Fingel/fchart
- Vladimir Dvorak - fchart3: python3 + pycairo support. Rectangular view, constellations shapes, borderlines. Support for stars up to 16mag using HTM (hierarchical triangular mesh) and USNO NOMAD catalog.