> From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>
>Subject: Update posted/bright mag limit/Linux
>
>Hi folks,

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> Actually, there is one other small change. In the past, you
>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.

Oh dear. At the risk of sounding ungrateful, this is *not* what I
meant. It is important to always show all the stars *down* to the
selected mag; what I was asking about was the 'star mag display' - the
numbers eg., 16.7 that can be shown when selected in the star display
setting. I don't need to have the brighter or fainter stars listed on
the screen - but I do want to have them shown. It would be ideal to
have the mag *numbers* shown for a range - but *all* the stars shown.

If poss!

TIA

Lawrence