Is 2.24 GB simply too big of a file? Do people really want this many stars downloaded to their mobile device? Flame away!
We'd like to get your thoughts on whether we should just jump to a streaming architecture, right now, and don't bother with a 2.24GB downloadable "extension". But we can certainly stream it as you need it. We just don't think that's practical, even in this day and age. The entire 1.7-billion-star GAIA catalog would occupy a file more than 30 gigabytes in size. The file size of the GAIA extension will be 2.24 gigabytes, as opposed to 1.45 gigabytes.īeyond this, we are thinking we'll move to a "streaming" architecture, where even more of the GAIA catalog is loaded on demand, in bits and pieces, across the internet, as you pan around the sky. That's a total of about 120 million stars, as opposed to the ~80 million currently present in the UCAC5 extension. The new GAIA DR-2 extension will include stars from G magnitude 15.0 to 17.0. This will be a free replacement for the UCAC5 extension - if you already purchased the UCAC5 extension, you won't have to buy the GAIA DR2 extension separately.
The big whopper will come in the GAIA extension, which will replace the UCAC5 extension in-app purchase.
#GAIA PROJECT EXTENSION PRO#
This is a modest increase in the number of stars (from 29 to about 33 million) that ship in SkySafari Pro by default. The "standard" SkySafari Pro will include GAIA stars to G magnitude 15. Now that the second data release (DR-2) of the GAIA star catalog is available, we are working on incorporating it into SkySafari Pro.
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