Bug 340377

Summary:	Calculate distance between two arbitrary stars
Product:	[Applications] kstars	Reporter:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Akarsh Simha <akarsh.simha>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	mutlaqja
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen 2014-10-26 21:10:01 UTC

Currently the distance from a star to Sol is available, but for some uses the ability to find the distance between two arbitrary stars would come in very handy.

A suggestion for workflow would be, search star (highlighted on map), right-click and get option to find distance to another star, which spawn dialogue to search another star, which is then highlighted with a line between the two (as with angular distance), with the distance in parsecs shown in the same style.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen 2014-10-27 08:23:28 UTC

A note on how to calculate this, including the apparent brightness of one when located at the other: http://www.neoprogrammics.com/distance_between_two_stars/ (needs right ascension, declination, distance and visual magnitude)

Comment 2 Jasem Mutlaq 2015-01-27 19:44:23 UTC

Unfortunately, no resources to work on this now.