Lawrence Harris Sep 23, 2002
> From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>snip
>Subject: Update posted/bright mag limit/Linux
>
>Hi folks,
> Actually, there is one other small change. In the past, youOh dear. At the risk of sounding ungrateful, this is *not* what I
>could go into "Display... Star Display" and set a "mag range".
>This specified the range of magnitudes between the smallest
>and largest star dot shown; set it to, say, 9, and at a limiting
>magnitude of 14, stars brighter than mag 5 would get no larger.
>This is still the default behavior.
>
> But the inquiries about having a bright limit, as well as a faint
>one, prompted me to make a little change possible. If you edit
>GUIDE.DAT and add the line
>
>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.