Right, I'm delighted to say I think we're good to go! I've added a new tab to the spreadsheet with a set of 55 slices of stars to look at. Each contains 500 HIP catalog stars that are currently unknown to EDSM (well, ok, the last slice is only half sized.)
The slices are arranged by galactic longitude, starting at zero ("north" towards Sgr A* from Sol) and working round anticlockwise. Because of the different densities of stars in different directions, and the differences in how thoroughly different directions have been mapped the slices are of different widths.
On the first tab of the spreadsheet, the unknown stars in the catalog are at the bottom of the sheet. (I'm laying claim to slice 47, because it just so happens that's where my carrier is at the moment.)
The numbers are the start and end rows for each slice - obviously stars within a particular slice by galactic longitude don't fall in to a neat sequence through the catalog but the benefit of this approach is that it gives us much neater directions than the Earth-based slanted planes that a series of HIP numbers give.
So! Please request a slice, and either send me an edit request for the main sheet (or just download a copy and get cracking and send when you're done). Once you've confirmed a star's name in the game please enter it in the spreadsheet in the "Name in Elite" column. (Any star you visit and upload to edsm which has a name in the HIP, HD, HR or Durchmusterung catalogs will be picked up automatically when I update the sheet using edsm data, but the ones with proper names or names from other catalogs we need the Elite name as a key.)
These are the ranges by start and end row on the sheet:
1 | 91590 | 92089 | 0 | | | | |
2 | 92090 | 92589 | | | | | |
3 | 92590 | 93089 | | | | | |
4 | 93090 | 93589 | | | | | |
5 | 93590 | 94089 | | | | | |
6 | 94090 | 94589 | | | | | |
7 | 94590 | 95089 | | | | | |
8 | 95090 | 95589 | | | | | |
9 | 95590 | 96089 | | | | | |
10 | 96090 | 96589 | | | | | |
11 | 96590 | 97089 | | | | | |
12 | 97090 | 97589 | | | | | |
13 | 97590 | 98089 | | | | | |
14 | 98090 | 98589 | | | | | |
15 | 98590 | 99089 | | | | | |
16 | 99090 | 99589 | | | | | |
17 | 99590 | 100089 | | | | | |
18 | 100090 | 100589 | | | | | |
19 | 100590 | 101089 | | | | | |
20 | 101090 | 101589 | | | | | |
21 | 101590 | 102089 | | | | | |
22 | 102090 | 102589 | | | | | |
23 | 102590 | 103089 | | | | | |
24 | 103090 | 103589 | | | | | |
25 | 103590 | 104089 | | | | | |
26 | 104090 | 104589 | | | | | |
27 | 104590 | 105089 | | | | | |
28 | 105090 | 105589 | | | | | |
29 | 105590 | 106089 | | | | | |
30 | 106090 | 106589 | | | | | |
31 | 106590 | 107089 | | | | | |
32 | 107090 | 107589 | | | | | |
33 | 107590 | 108089 | | | | | |
34 | 108090 | 108589 | | | | | |
35 | 108590 | 109089 | | | | | |
36 | 109090 | 109589 | | | | | |
37 | 109590 | 110089 | | | | | |
38 | 110090 | 110589 | | | | | |
39 | 110590 | 111089 | | | | | |
40 | 111090 | 111589 | | | | | |
41 | 111590 | 112089 | | | | | |
42 | 112090 | 112589 | | | | | |
43 | 112590 | 113089 | | | | | |
44 | 113090 | 113589 | | | | | |
45 | 113590 | 114089 | | | | | |
46 | 114090 | 114589 | | | | | |
47 | 114590 | 115089 | 315.1346 | 319.6314 | Jackie Silver | In progress | |
48 | 115090 | 115589 | | | | | |
49 | 115590 | 116089 | | | | | |
50 | 116090 | 116589 | | | | | |
51 | 116590 | 117089 | | | | | |
52 | 117090 | 117589 | | | | | |
53 | 117590 | 118089 | | | | | |
54 | 118090 | 118589 | | | | | |
55 | 118590 | 118801 | | 360 | | | Half range. |