Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources It would be nice to include the effect of the deflection of the stars light near the sun. Reproducing Eddington's experiment could be interesting for educational purposes even if the correction is small.
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 WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=909033
It is not the right bug number Akarsh i fear. ;)
Oops, Yes. Thanks Médéric.
SVN commit 996762 by asimha: Store unaberrated values of the sun's position as RA0 and Dec0. Required for general relativistic corrections near the sun. CCMAIL: kstars-devel@kde.org CCBUG: 170583 M +6 -0 kssun.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=996762
SVN commit 996779 by asimha: Adding General Relativity corrections due to the sun's gravity. Only the backends are implemented now. Pressing 'R' toggles the relativistic corrections. To see the effect, zoom in near the rim of the sun and press 'R'. CCMAIL: kstars-devel@kde.org FEATURE: 170583 M +5 -0 kstars.kcfg M +3 -0 skymap.h M +16 -0 skymapevents.cpp M +69 -6 skyobjects/skypoint.cpp M +22 -0 skyobjects/skypoint.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=996779
Thanks Akarsh, that's terrific, i am going to try that out tonight to see if that Einstein guy was right. :)
It'd be great if you could check up if the guy who wrote this code was right as well.