AstroVia Catalogue Service
The authoritative source of astronomical reference data: stars, deep-sky objects, identifiers, constellations, coordinates, and metadata used by the planetarium, the queue manager, and the agent.
A hard, repository-wide rule applies: Right Ascension is always stored and returned in decimal hours (0–24) regardless of the original source format. Parsers convert radians (× 12/π), HMS strings, and degrees (÷ 15) into decimal hours at ingest, so every consumer receives a single, predictable representation.
The service is an ASP.NET Core API with EF Core persistence and is queried by the client (for target search and rendering) and by the queue manager (when materialising plan targets).