Bug 340377 - Calculate distance between two arbitrary stars
Summary: Calculate distance between two arbitrary stars
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: kstars
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Akarsh Simha
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Reported: 2014-10-26 21:10 UTC by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Modified: 2015-01-27 19:44 UTC (History)
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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.