Re: [guide-user] Asteroids, distant moons

Bill J Gray Jul 17, 2012

Hi Jari,

> An old wish of mine, which I repeat here lest it be forgotten.
>
> I would be cool, if Guide could show stellar looking objects as
> stars of correct magnitude.

Yup, I remember that one from a while back. At the time, I
tried doing it. The problem was that it resulted in quite a slowdown,
due to the way in which the magnitude data for asteroids was stored
(a case of "it would have been easy if I'd planned it that way from
the beginning, but adding it in now doesn't work so well.")

Since then, though, I had to rewrite a lot of that chunk of
code. I'll take another look at the issue. Actually, it's
at least three issues: artificial satellites, planets/natural
satellites, and asteroids are drawn in three different ways, and
each ideally would have this option of being drawn as "stellar"
objects.

-- Bill