Don Ellington Feb 25, 2009
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> Hi Don,
>
> This isn't a bug. It's a feature. (Programmers love being
> able to say that!)
>
> Originally, you could show those images at any field. The
> problem was that if you went to, say, a 20-degree field of view
> over a galaxy-rich area, you had to wait a _long_ time while
> Guide drew a bazillion tiny images, each maybe two or three
> pixels on a side. So I revised things so that if an image
> was smaller than 40 pixels in both dimensions, it wouldn't get
> drawn.
>
> To revise this, you can hit Alt-J again, and this time
> enter, for example,
>
> MIN_IMG_SIZE=10
>
> Do that, and you can zoom out by a factor of four and still
> see those images. (Not that they'll look like much when reduced
> to 10x10 pixels, but you _can_ do it.)
>
> -- Bill
>
>