taking a database like excel and converting it to ssc?

[stevenabors]

I see charts of objects and stuff on the internet that I can download and format into excel. Is there anyway to take a saved as text version of this database and converting it to ssc rather easily?

[billybob884]

I dont think so...


Mike M.

[Paul]

I see charts of objects and stuff on the internet that I can download and format into excel. Is there anyway to take a saved as text version of this database and converting it to ssc rather easily?

Heh, I wish. So far I've just done it by hand, just do a few whenever I have a couple of minutes to spare.

Chris mentioned XML as being the next format for Celestia's SSC and DAT files. I just hope that it's compatible with VizieR's AstroRes XML format, or some other astro-search-engine, or else having it XML will be about as useless (for extension) as the current format.

[Guest]

Actually if you can get the data into an excel file easy enough, just open it in access or export it to a commer delimited file...

for the access DB you could easily proccess it using a asp (php,etc) script.
or for a commer file just about any scripting or basic programming language could easily convert it to ssc.. mind you I talking converting ten plus planets (moons, etc) to make it worth the time.

Maybe I will do it.... like I will find the time .... but who knows..