The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Astro::Catalog
DSLIP: bdpOg
description: Generic astronomical catalogue object
userid: AALLAN (Alasdair Allan)
chapterid: 23 (Miscellaneous_Modules)
communities:
similar:
Astro:DSS Astro::ADS
rationale:
The Astro::Catalog module is a generic, object-orientated,
astronomical catalogue. Subclasses provides access to the USNO-A2
and Guide Star Catalogues hosted online at the ESO/ECF-ST archive
site, it also provides read/write access to ARK CLUSTER format
catalogue files.
Due to it generic and extensible nature it is easily subclassed to
provide access to other catalogue sources, for instance access to
the Hipparchos and Tycho-2 catalogues could be easily added.
Additonally the Catalog class itself is fairly vital for moving
information about a stellar object around inside an OO perl program.
The module is related to my own Astro::DSS and Astro::ADS modules
which also give access to online astronomical databases. Neither of
these are "catalogues" as such however, the Deep Sky Survey is just
that, an imaging survey and the ADS is a publications archive, hence
the new namespace.
The module has already been released on Freshmeat and amougst the
astronomical community interested in such things and has proved
popular.
enteredby: AALLAN (Alasdair Allan)
enteredon: Thu Feb 21 13:06:15 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Astro::
::Catalog bdpOg Generic astronomical catalogue object AALLAN
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