Bug 320777

Summary:	WISHLIST: Satellite trails and satellite filter option in find dialog
Product:	[Applications] kstars	Reporter:	Koushik S <skoushik333>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ilpo, mutlaqja
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kstars/5e0823d917bfa87a085cc3232d09723b4a621da4	Version Fixed In:

Description Koushik S 2013-06-05 19:38:36 UTC

In the present version, the satellite viewing customization seems to be limited, and is also harder to spot despite the name being displayed. A neat feature would be to have an option to display the satellite's trails so that it is easier to spot a satellite.
Along with that, I've noticed that the "find object" dialog does not appear to have a filter type for satellites. There seems to be a search box for it in the configuration window though. It is only a minor inconvenience, but would be great if there was some way to have it in the 'find object' dialog.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Trials of satellites (atleast visible/brightest, so that it doesn't clutter the sky).
Satellite option in the find object dialog

Comment 1 Jasem Mutlaq 2015-01-28 13:23:49 UTC

Git commit 5e0823d917bfa87a085cc3232d09723b4a621da4 by Jasem Mutlaq.
Committed on 28/01/2015 at 13:22.
Pushed by mutlaqja into branch 'master'.

Trails for satellites can end up messy so it will NOT be implemented. However, I added satalittes to the find dialog.

M  +3    -0    kstars/dialogs/finddialog.cpp
M  +20   -0    kstars/skycomponents/satellitescomponent.cpp
M  +8    -0    kstars/skycomponents/satellitescomponent.h
M  +2    -0    kstars/skycomponents/skymapcomposite.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kstars/5e0823d917bfa87a085cc3232d09723b4a621da4

Comment 2 Ilpo Kantonen 2022-09-17 21:58:42 UTC

Kstars 3.6.0 doesn't display satellites at all. I have loaded and updated satellite data. There are in ~/.local/share/kstars directory many .tle files which have in html format url http://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/geo.txt. But they are not in sky on monitor. Is that a bug? When I start kstars from console it prints log where are not any mention to satellites. There are some warnings and finnis text, because I use kstars with finnish texts in Linux Kubuntu 22.04 system.

$ kstars
Call to writableLocation without an application-based location.
org.kde.kstars: Welcome to KStars 3.6.0 Stable
org.kde.kstars: Build: 2022-08-28T09:17:15Z
org.kde.kstars: OS: "ubuntu"
org.kde.kstars: API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64"
org.kde.kstars: Arch: "x86_64"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Type: "linux"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Version: "5.15.0-47-generic"
org.kde.kstars: Qt Version: 5.15.3
org.kde.kstars: Processing  "unnamedstars.dat" , HTMesh Level 3
org.kde.kstars:   Sky Mesh Size:  512
org.kde.kstars: Loaded DSO catalog file:  "unnamedstars.dat"
org.kde.kstars: Processing  "deepstars.dat" , HTMesh Level 3
org.kde.kstars:   Sky Mesh Size:  512
org.kde.kstars: Loaded DSO catalog file:  "deepstars.dat"
org.kde.kstars: Processing  "USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat" , HTMesh Level 6
org.kde.kstars:   Sky Mesh Size:  32768
org.kde.kstars: Loaded DSO catalog file:  "USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat"
org.kde.kstars: "Tähteä HD20 794 ei löytynyt."
org.kde.kstars: "Tähteä HD98 230 ei löytynyt."
org.kde.kstars: Loaded DSO catalogs.
org.kde.kstars: Loading comets
KTranscript: Loaded property map: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_SCRIPTS/ki18n5/general.pmapc
KTranscript: Loaded module: /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_SCRIPTS/ki18n5/ki18n5.js
kf.i18n: "Interpolation {$[gen %1]} in {$[gen %1] &asetukset...} failed: Non-string return value: undefined"
kf.i18n: "Interpolation {$[gen %1]} in {$[gen %1] käyttö&ohj...} failed: Non-string return value: undefined"
kf.i18n: "Interpolation {$[elat %1]} in {&Tietoa $[yleisnimi_...} failed: Non-string return value: undefined"
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "get_data" "Lataa uusia aineistoja…" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "timestep_increase_units" "Increase Time Scale" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "timestep_decrease_units" "Decrease Time Scale" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
org.kde.kstars: Current icon theme is "breeze"
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
org.kde.kstars: Loading comets
org.kde.kstars: Loading asteroids
kf.kio.core: Malformed JSON protocol file for protocol: "trash" , number of the ExtraNames fields should match the number of ExtraTypes fields
Gtk-Message: 00:44:47.257: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 00:44:47.257: Failed to load module "window-decorations-gtk-module"
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