Summary: | Faint limits disabled for deep-sky objects | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kstars | Reporter: | Marko Gronroos <magi> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | akarsh.simha, mboquien |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 1.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Marko Gronroos
2004-09-12 20:58:54 UTC
The deep-sky mag limits are disabled because the default NGC/IC catalog contains too many undefined magnitudes. There is a much more complete NGC/IC catalog available in the Get New Stuff tool (Ctrl+D). We can't ship the good catalog with KStars because it is not under a Free Software license (it is free for non-commercial use only). I am on the lookout for a Free and complete NGC/IC catalog. If and when I find one, I will enable the deep-sky mag limits. The Remove Catalog button is only enabled if you highlight a custom object catalog; the default catalogs can't be removed (but they can be hidden). This is not a bug. I like your idea of drawing a box on the sky to identify objects. It will fit nicely with the new Observing List tool; you would be able to add objects to your observing list by drawing a box around them in the map. Then you can filter by type/magnitude/etc. I'll add this to my TODO list. Finally, we've gotten a good catalog (actually, we've merged in a good catalog with correct magnitudes). I think it is worth looking at this bug now. I just fixed this bug: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1031008 http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1031011 A lot of IC objects still have undefined magnitudes, so we display them all the time anyway. |