[Kstars-devel] constellation lines reloaded

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

Thanks to a user named Clemens, we now have a mostly-complete overhaul of our 
constellation-line data.  The problem with the old data was that the "nodes" 
of the constellations were fixed sky coordinates, and not tied to the 
constellation's stars.  This caused a few problems:

+ in some cases, there was a small error in the position of a node

+ now that we have proper motion of stars, constellation nodes will need to 
adjust as stars move.

+ some of the constellations had missing lines

Clemens reported the missing constellation lines issue as bug #72632, and I 
suggested that the nodes should be defined with star names instead of 
coordinates.  He graciously took on this task himself.  His current table (in 
OpenOffice format) is at:

http://www.psychotekk.de/extern/CLinesNew.sxw

Feel free to fill in the missing entries, if you can.  Once this is complete, 
I can add it to the program.

Clemens: do you subscribe to the kstars-devel mailing list?

regards,
Jason
-- 
-------------------------------
KStars: KDE Desktop Planetarium
kstars at 30doradus.org