Andrea Pelloni Feb 6, 2004
>Hi Alex, Andrea,Hello Bill, so you give another way to solve this problem.
> I would expect to handle the "symbol" problem as described at
>http://www.projectpluto.com/future.htm#symbols
> As is described there, one could then tell Guide to use aAndrea Pelloni
>larger/smaller symbol, as desired.
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> As to coloring star dots: the major problem with that, right
>now, is that stars can be colored by spectral type or not at all.
>A secondary problem is that the stars will still be essentially
>superimposed, so it'll still be common for one star to overdraw
>another.
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> The best solution, at present, is to shut off any catalog
>not actually in current use. A better solution, in the future,
>would be for Guide to recognize situations where a given star is
>being drawn from multiple catalogs, and then show it only once.
>When you clicked on that star, and then on "more info", you'd
>get data from all the catalogs, including user-added ones. Some
>parameters would be needed to let the user define which stars
>would "match" between catalogs... a somewhat scary process, but
>not inconceivable.
>
>-- Bill
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