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@cosinekitty cosinekitty released this 23 Nov 17:53
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Now you can define up to eight custom points in space that have a fixed heliocentric right ascension, declination, and distance. These are called user-defined stars, although they don't literally have to be stars. They can be any object that is more than one light-year away from the Sun.

To create a user-defined star, call the function for your language:

Once you have associated a custom star with a Body value, you can pass that value to functions like SearchRiseSet, GeoVector, etc.