Version: 1.4.1 (using KDE 4.1.1) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages It'd be a useful addition to allow the animation time step to be set to a sidereal day (23h, 56min, ...). Doing that one can observe the standstill of the stars while the solar system objects move. This could be achieved by adding a separate unit 'sidereal day' between hour and day in the time step control.
Created attachment 27648 [details] Simple patch replacing 12 hours time step by the siderial day. A trivial fix is replacing another time step (e.g. 12 hours, which is not very interesting) by the siderial day. This can be done by applying the attached patch to widgets/timespinbox.cpp of the kdeedu 4.1.1 source (haven't checked trunk). This isn't particularly pretty but does it for me.
SVN commit 909033 by asimha: Applying Nico Dietrich's patch (modified) to add a Sidereal Day time-step to the Time Spin Box. Nico's patch would replace the 12 hour timestep with a sidereal day timestep. Instead of doing that, I modified the patch to retain the 12 hour timestep and add a sidereal day timestep as well. Thanks Nico! This closes wishlist bug #170583. (Thanks Médéric, for pointing this out) BUG: 170583 CCMAIL: kstars-devel@kde.org M +23 -21 timespinbox.cpp M +1 -1 timespinbox.h
Thanks!