Howdy!
> BRIGHT_LIMIT=y
>
> then the brighter stars will simply be omitted. Thus, in the above
> example, only stars brighter than mag 5 and fainter than 14 would
> be shown.
Hmmm... guess that may be useful sometimes. But, I've re-read some of the
request for this, and do I read them correctly if I've identified two different
requests really? One is for being able to show magnitude labels between certain
levels (that's something I'd like to see!), and the other (currently
implemented) to the stars themselves dependent on their magnitudes. The latter
was mentioned in the context of asteroid observing. The desire for not wanting
to show brigther stars still eludes me, however. Wouldn't turning off the bright
stuff make for an utterly confusing view? (I'm not questioning the usefulness of
the feature, I'd just like somebody to say something about how they would use it
:) )
And speaking of labels. I have a vague memory of someone asking about something
similar earlier, but it would be really cool if the labels could be customized.
Instead of names for DSOs, you could display magnitude, size or whatever. For
open clusters you could show the number of stars, for planetaries, the mag of
the central star. All sorts of applications, really. Just an idea.
> and "I've got time to work on that". Aside from reading a bit about
> TrollTech's Qt toolkit, and porting certain pieces of source code to
> Linux, I can't say that I've made much progress.
According to a friend of mine how's also doing some work on astronomy software,
QT promises to be the way to go for anybody who wants to be able to have their
stuff running on several platforms. But for you to take advantage of that, you
would probably have to "port" your current Windows version to Qt. But, that
done, you should be all set for Linux, Solaris, Mac and Windows! (A bit off
topic here, but I know that I would hate to loose Guide should I get so fed up
with Windows that I'd leave it.)
Best regards,
Arild :)
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