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I'm making a planet generation tool (my first program) and there will be a random planet feature. But i cant extract the names of the stars from Celestia, which i need to have to make a random stars text file.

How to extract all star names from Celestia ?

Names are stored in the file starnames.dat (note this also contains various catalogue numbers as well): open it in a text editor, the format should be fairly obvious (the first number is the Hipparcos number).

HD and SAO numbers are stored in the hdxindex.dat and saoxindex.dat files, format documented here.

Until the model is ready, here are some alternative models to use instead, just for your amusement:

http://delorean.turbosquid.com/3d-Model ... si/c4d/obj