Hi James<br><br>One of the bugs we have with asteroids has to do with the limiting magnitude filter for asteroids. I was just looking at the code trying to figure out how I should go about enforcing a magnitude filter on the find dialog. I realised that at some point of time, we may want to implement a magnitude filter for deepsky objects as well. So, just about every skycomponent should ideally be magnitude filterable.
<br><br>Since what you are doing looks similar to this I wanted your inputs on this. I think it would be best if we could finally achieve something like a magnitude limit that grows fainter as we zoom in, for then we could include more exhaustive star and object catalogs.
<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Regards<br>Akarsh<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Akarsh Simha</b> <<a href="mailto:akarshsimha@gmail.com">akarshsimha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi James<br><br>Thanks for the information. I will hold myself from making any changes to the skycomponents/ directory till you finish.
<br><br>Regards<br><span class="sg">Akarsh.</span><div><span class="e" id="q_113f9aa404ab6468_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
James Bowlin</b> <<a href="mailto:bowlin@mindspring.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bowlin@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Akarsh,<br><br>I can't answer you questions but I wanted to let you know that I am<br>making some substantial changes in the skycomponents/ directory in<br>order to add a spatial index to make drawing and finding things much
<br>faster. I've already made some changes to AsteroidComponent.<br><br>Jason should be back from his trip to Australia any day now. I'm<br>working in a separate branch for now and it will be up to Jason<br>to decide when/if my changes get applied to the main branch. If
<br>you could hold off for a few days before making changes in the<br>skycomponents/ directory, it might help prevent us from stepping on<br>one another's toes.<br><br><br>--<br>Peace, James<br><br><br><br>On Tue July 24 2007 11:14 am, Akarsh Simha wrote:
<br>> Hi<br>> I'm sorry I was away from the scenario for quite some time.<br>><br>> I don't think I as yet have the skill to write an occultations class, so<br>> I had better start off with a few more simple bugfixes. Are there any
<br>> that I can work on?<br>><br>> I've noticed that there's a bug in calculating the magnitudes of<br>> asteroids and several asteroids are reported well brighter than Mag 10,<br>> while the SB What's Observable site shows only a handful. What is the
<br>> possible problem? (I had mentioned this earlier here as well)<br>><br>> Thanks.</blockquote></div>
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