Update posted

Bill J. Gray Nov 14, 2001

Hi folks,

I just posted a "mini-update" on the Web site. There's now a button
to download/display A2.0 data. It's much like the GSC-2.2 button I added
a while back, just with a different dataset. Also, you can show the
time zone in the legend, and the handling of mouse clicks in the legend
area has been improved a bit.

I added the time zone partly for selfish reasons. I got another
support call from someone wondering why Guide was showing objects
in odd places, and it turned out to be a time zone error. This
happens quite frequently; my hope is that, by putting the TZ into
the legend, it'll be a difficult error to make.

Owen Brazell pointed out that, while you can reset all sorts of DSO
symbols, you can't reset the symbol for a galaxy. I've fixed that,
with the small problem that the symbol won't scale/rotate the way the
(default) ellipse does when you zoom in. I don't think it'll be terribly
helpful to anyone. I also documented the way in which the symbol for
artificial satellites (by default, a small triangle) can be reset.
For details, take a look at

http://www.projectpluto.com/update7.htm#dso_symbols

-- Bill