celestia/data/galaxies.dat

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# Galaxy catalog for Celestia
"Milky Way"
{
Type "SBa"
RA 17.75
Dec -28.93
Distance 28000
Radius 50000
Axis [ 0.712 0.533 0.456 ]
Angle 149
}
# Large Magellanic Cloud /
"LMC"
{
Type "Irr"
RA 5.328
Dec -68.95
Distance 179000
Radius 15000
Detail 0.5
}
# Small Magellanic Cloud / NGC 292
"SMC"
{
Type "Irr"
RA 0.862
Dec -73.23
Distance 210000
Radius 12000
Axis [ 1 0 0 ]
Angle 100
Detail 0.5
}
# Andromeda / NGC 224
"M31"
{
Type "Sb"
RA 0.712
Dec 41.27
Distance 2.9e6
Radius 75000
Axis [ -0.596 -0.191 0.780 ]
Angle 195
}
# Triangulum spiral / NGC 598
"M33"
{
Type "Sb"
RA 1.565
Dec 30.65
Distance 3e6
Radius 30000
}
# NGC 205, satellite of M31
"M110"
{
Type "E5"
RA 0.6883
Dec 41.683
Distance 2.9e6
Radius 8500
Detail 0.5
}
# NGC 221, satellite of M31
"M32"
{
Type "E2"
RA 0.712
Dec 40.867
Distance 2.9e6
Radius 4000
Detail 0.5
}
# M82 / NGC 3031
# Distance estimate based on Hipparcos results and HST
# observations of Cepheid variables.
"M82"
{
Type "Sb"
RA 9.9267
Dec 69.067
Distance 1.2e7
Radius 35000
}