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Hi friends,

if i played around with celestia, i got some ideas for tools:

first:
a stars.dat explorer/-editor
i think about an external tool to edit the stars.dat more comfortable.
it should have some features:
- a GUI
- the possibility to search a star by it?s assigned numbers/name
- translate the binary code to real parameters
- the possibility to view/edit this parameters like distance; RA/DEC; spectralclass; app. and/or abs. magnitudes; etc.
- add stars manualy from other sources
- and then write it back to stars.dat

and second:
a random open/globular cluster generator
this means a tool for creating clusters.
possible features:
- select the range of spectralglasses, thats been used
(example: use only stars from M to G to create and old cluster)
- specify the coordinates of the center for the cluster
- specify the distance of the center from SOL
- specify the max. distance of stars from the center
- specify the max. and min. Magitude used for the stars
- specify the count of stars in the cluster
- specify the density of the cluster (possible useless because the summary of distance and count)
- and than put it into a .stc file

Because i?m a very bad developer, now i hope there?s someone out, who can create such a tool
I hope, my english isn?t to bad, so that you can understand, what i mean

hmmm..., not so good ?

nah not that...I dont get replies to added features alot too...Its that most here are busy fixing the bugs and ports right now...I personally would like to se some kind of editor...This would be very nice...