Originally from ticket #5557.
Can you draw your own asterisms with any of your software? If not could you recommend another program? Many Thanks
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Keiron Smith To create a new set of asterisms, you need to create a plain text file in the proper format, and save this file in your “Starry Night\Sky Data\Asterisms” folder (on the Macintosh, you will need to Ctrl-click on the Starry Night application icon and choose Show Package Contents, then open the “Resources” folder to view the “Sky Data” folder). The next time you run Starry Night, open the Options pane and expand the Constellations layer. Open the Constellation Options dialog box. Your new set of asterisms will be listed alongside the other sets of stick figures.
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Keiron Smith To see the format for an asterism file, open the text file "Oriental Moon Stations.txt" in your “Starry Night\Sky Data\Asterisms” folder . This is the exact file which Starry Night uses to render the Oriental moon station set of stick figures onscreen. The format is quite straightforward. You need to specify a name for your new set of asterisms (for example, "Oriental Moon Stations"). For each asterism in this set, you need to enter the asterism's name, the approximate position in the sky of the asterism's centre, and each of the lines between stars that define the shape and size of this asterism.
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Keiron Smith Please also see this Q & A regarding asterism format.
https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/entries/21116028-creating-asterisms-in-starry-night-6-4-3
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Keiron Smith Should work with all Starry Night programs.
See page 178 in the User's Guide (under the Help tab).
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Keiron Smith New KB article is here!
Fun with Asterism in Starry Night software
https://simcur.zendesk.com/entries/68325114-Fun-with-Asterisms-in-Starry-Night-software
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