Star Lists
The stars in the NexStar 5/8 and original GT hand control are accessed via a
Celestron specific identifying number. A cross reference is necessary to lookup the
Celestron number if you know the SAO number. Star lists are available on Celestron's
web site, but previously the 60/80/114/4 star list provided on the Celestron web site had
several major errors. If you downloaded the list from them after about January 23,
2001, you have a good list.
Stars in the new GT, NexStar 5i/8i, and NexStar 8/9.25/11 GPS are
accessed via SAO numbers. These lists just identify which
stars are in the hand control databases and identify additional
double stars.
In each file, there are separate sheets for the entire star list, the alignment stars,
double stars and variable stars. The variable stars listed are just those originally
identified by Celestron, but I expanded the double star lists substantially.
The first three star lists are in Excel (97 or later) spreadsheet
format. If
you do not have Excel, but want to use the Scope Calculator, try
Google Sheets (search at
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/) or Open Office (https://www.openoffice.org/). |
(135KB) |
Star list for the NexStar
60/76/80/102/114/4/130 GT models. 2,824 stars including 564 double stars. |
(393KB) |
Star list for the original
NexStar 5/8. 10,384 stars including 1,367 double stars. |
(1.2MB) |
Star list for the NexStar 8/9.25/11
GPS, 5i/8i, CPC, LCM, SLT, AS-GT, StarSeeker,
CGE, CGE Pro, CGEM and the GT with version 4/104 hand control. 29,522
stars including 2,566 double stars. |
The following three star lists are in Adobe PDF
format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at www.adobe.com. These lists are the double stars only. You
can get the full star lists in PDF format on the NexStar pages at Celestron's web site - www.celestron.com.
Telescope models as above. |
(50KB) |
List of 564 double stars for the
NexStar 60/76/80/102/114/4/130 GT models referenced by NexStar and SAO numbers. |
(102KB) |
List of 1,367 double stars for the
original NexStar 5/8 with NexStar and SAO
numbers cross referenced. |
(163KB) |
List of 2,566 double stars for the
NexStar 8/9.25/11 GPS, 5i/8i, CPC, LCM, SLT, AS-GT,
StarSeeker, CGE, CGE Pro, CGEM and the GT with version 4/104 hand
control. Referenced by SAO numbers to allow use of the star list in
the hand control. |
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