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>weird delimiters (pipes '|' are popular in astro for some reason)

I can only guess that since it's astronomy data and constellation coordinates have decimal places, it's best to avoid the comma character because some countries use it as a decimal separator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark



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