I link here a spreadsheet copy of the Hipparcos (HIP) catalogue, cross-referenced with other star catalogues and a recent (Jan 2019) edsm data dump to provide as many correlations as possible between the 100,000 stars in the catalogue and their equivalents in the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous.
I hope this may be useful to anyone looking to visit a previously unexplored HIP star, or curious about how the Elite galaxy matches up to the catalogue.
There are at present a great many gaps for various reasons;
1) edsm data does not include the majority of explorers
2) inaccuracies in the way the original datasets were applied to the game, so that the same star may appear twice in game under two of its names
3) my trawl program was limited in its ability to match HIP numbers to Elite names; it matched HD, HR, Durchmusterung, some proper names and some Bayer names / Flamsteed numbers, but not all catalogues and all spelling variants.
4) a considerable number of systems are renamed to purely fictional names in-game, especially of inhabited systems
5) there are many stars which are present in game but unreachable with current working jump technology (except for the Gnosis)
6) some stars in the game are not searchable by entering their HIP number, but exist under another name and have their identity as a HIP mentioned. Usually a star that exists in HIP is searchable as HIP regardless of its name, but these ones are harder to track down.
My aim is to fill in all the gaps and visit, to make sure they are entered into edsm, but it's an enormous project. My current plan is to spend the next 20 weeks on this, on the grounds that I would have spent that time on DW2 anyway.
I hope this may be useful to anyone looking to visit a previously unexplored HIP star, or curious about how the Elite galaxy matches up to the catalogue.
There are at present a great many gaps for various reasons;
1) edsm data does not include the majority of explorers
2) inaccuracies in the way the original datasets were applied to the game, so that the same star may appear twice in game under two of its names
3) my trawl program was limited in its ability to match HIP numbers to Elite names; it matched HD, HR, Durchmusterung, some proper names and some Bayer names / Flamsteed numbers, but not all catalogues and all spelling variants.
4) a considerable number of systems are renamed to purely fictional names in-game, especially of inhabited systems
5) there are many stars which are present in game but unreachable with current working jump technology (except for the Gnosis)
6) some stars in the game are not searchable by entering their HIP number, but exist under another name and have their identity as a HIP mentioned. Usually a star that exists in HIP is searchable as HIP regardless of its name, but these ones are harder to track down.
My aim is to fill in all the gaps and visit, to make sure they are entered into edsm, but it's an enormous project. My current plan is to spend the next 20 weeks on this, on the grounds that I would have spent that time on DW2 anyway.
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