2MASS infrared star catalog data mining for use onboard a daytime star tracker

Data Mining of 2 Micron All Sky Survey (2mass) catalog for mission catalog production of a daytime star tracker is considered in this paper. In order for a star tracker to determine attitude and position both in night and daytime, it is required that functional spectral wavebands of stars alter from visual to infrared. One of the most detailed point source catalogs available in three J, H and K bands of infrared waveband is 2MASS. This catalog contains more than 470 million infrared point sources which is considered enormously large amount of data for a typical celestial navigation device. In this paper decision making toward choosing the most suitable infrared sources required for attitude and position determination is surveyed. Attempts demonstrate that infrared camera parameters as well as observation accuracies of 2MASS catalog can affect the choice of an infrared star, onboard the mission catalog of a daytime star tracker.