Bug 266936

Summary:	Objects with small angular size are effectively invisible
Product:	[Applications] kstars	Reporter:	Alexey Khudiakov <alexey.skladnoy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Akarsh Simha <akarsh.simha>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	csaba.kertesz, mutlaqja
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alexey Khudiakov 2011-02-23 01:28:53 UTC

Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

Objects on the sky map are drawn with their real angular sizes. For small objects it means that they are effectively invisible at low zoom because they are smaller than a pixel even if those objects are quite bright. Solution is draw object as pictogram if it's smaller than say 10 pixels. 

This solution brings another problem. Map will become to crowded with galaxies and probably asteroids. So some reasonable magnitude cutoff should be implemented.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Csaba Kertész 2017-08-09 20:21:10 UTC

I think the current zoom in/out behavior is fine, it works the same way like Stellarium.