Transits, image choices, constellation labels

Bill J Gray Sep 1, 2002

Laurent is right; please disregard what I said about having to
modify CD_DATA3.TDF. I wrote that a little too quickly (I had a
local copy of the file with the "wrong" line in it.) On the bright
side... if anyone _wanted_ to see "Bull" instead of "Taurus",
you now know how to do it.

Arild, about the image choices: there are about 30,000 images
on the second Guide CD. The actual selection and data processing
of all this was done by Eric-Sven Vesting, using a large stack of
DSS disks and some software I'd supplied. After including all IC
and NGC objects, he did some processing of assorted deep-sky
catalogues (mostly the PGC) in search of suitably "important"
(mostly, bright) objects.

I thought the transit problem would be easy to fix, by having
the planet trails drawn _after_ planets instead of _before_. But
that would lead to a different set of drawing problems. So I'll
have to think about this one a little; it's nowhere near as simple
as I at first expected.

-- Bill