Re: [guide-user] 2UCAC blue markers now

Bill J Gray Feb 18, 2007

Hi Peter,

You've gotten two good answers from Roger and John, for either
shutting UCAC-2 stars off or just getting rid of the blue markers.
A couple of other things:

You can click on a UCAC-2 star, then Display, then select a color
that blends into the background. Disadvantage to this is that sometimes
the background isn't constant, if you're in 'realistic' mode or have
the horizon or horizon objects turned on, or if the Milky Way/nebula
isophotes are on and filled.

A better way would be if you could select the symbol associated with
a given sort of object. That's on my 'to do' list. (There would be a
"Select Symbol" button in the Display dialog; you'd click on this,
get a full selection of the symbols Guide knows about, and select what
size, color, and orientation you want to see it at.)

In the meantime, I think I'll just comment out the 'blue markers'
for UCAC-2.

Just got a comment via private e-mail from Jari Suomela: he's still
not getting lists of satellite passes. So the current version is an
improvement, but I've still at least one bug to fix.

-- Bill