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--- en:news:gaia_dr2 [2018/10/13 21:20] – [Use with Skychart] pch
+++ en:news:gaia_dr2 [2019/07/17 12:47] (current) – pch
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   * [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/2-catalogs/Stars/GAIA/gaia-dr2-3.torrent/download|gaia-dr2-3.torrent]] : The remaining stars from magnitude 18 to about 21, download size 36.4GB
-For convenience you can also download the first part, equivalent of gaia-dr2-1.torrent, directly from your browser: [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/2-catalogs/Stars/GAIA/gaia1.rar/download|gaia1.rar]], size 1.1 GB.
+For convenience you can also download the files from your browser using http, but this is likely to take more time and is less reliable than the torrent: [[https://vega.ap-i.net/pub/GaiaDR2/]]
-Extract all the 3 parts on the same directory, preferably in your Documents folder. This make the following folders:\\
+Extract all the 3 parts on the same directory, preferably in your Documents folder. On Windows you can use [[https://www.7-zip.org/|7-zip]], on Linux use "''unrar x gaia*.rar''". This make the following folders:\\
 .../gaia/gaia1\\
 .../gaia/gaia2\\
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 They not include the star name, the proper motion, the parallax and the radial velocity. This is the price for the compactness but this values are not mandatory to make a nice star chart.
-The download size is much smaller, between 300MB and 840MB, see:\\
+The download size is much smaller, between 300MB and 1GB, see:\\
-https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/star_databases/
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/hnsky/files/star_databases/
 Extract the files in your HNSKY directory or in any other folder.\\