[Kstars-devel] Re: constellation lines reloaded

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

I have updated the new constellation-line data file.  Now all 
constellations have lines; I used several websites to decide how to 
draw them:
http://www.e-z.net/~haworth/constel/
http://www.heavens-above.com
http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/index.html

Nearly all of the stars that were unnamed previously have a genitive 
designation that does not use a greek letter, such as "26 Ursa Majoris" 
or "J Puppis".  I'll have to modify the code to deal with this new 
naming paradigm.  I got these star names from the indispensable 
"SkyAtlas 2000" by Wil Tirion.
 
I will commit the new clines.dat, the modified hip*.dat and the new 
naming code all together when the code is ready.

For now, you can review my changes in the attached file.

regards,
Jason


On Saturday 31 January 2004 04:37 am, PsychoTekk .de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > + some of the constellations had missing lines
>
> although requested by me, i have not modified the lines
> in any way, it's a 1:1-copy from the current to the new syntax.
> it's because different sources use different constellation
> lines, and i have none of the "official" books. see also
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72632#c4
>
> > Clemens: do you subscribe to the kstars-devel mailing list?
>
> joined today :-)
>
> regards,
>  Clemens

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