Hi Bill,

I'm looking forward to this new revision...

Tom

On 4/5/2013 4:53 PM, Bill Gray wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
>> Anyway, I THINK that Tom's looking for what I'd like: the ability to adjust
>> the automatic change in limiting magnitude. In my case I'd like to run 18th
>> magnitude at zoom level 8 and perhaps 2nd magnitude (rather than 8.9 mag) at
>> zoom level Z.
>
> I should have borrowed your e-mail for my example. "Z" goes to zoom level 1
> (180 degrees). So you're looking at a difference of seven levels (level 1 to
> level 8) and of sixteen magnitudes (going from mag 2 to mag 18). So you would
> divide 16 by 7 to get 2.28 mags per zoom level, and you'd hit Alt-J and enter
>
> MAGS_PER_LEVEL=2.28
>
> (all this, it should be noted, with the version I expect to post shortly!
> As soon as I puzzle out this planet maps issue... still no luck there.)
>
> -- Bill
>
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