[Kstars-devel] kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jason Harris]

Wow, excellent.  Please thank Pere for the contribution!

On Friday 14 January 2005 07:26 am, Pablo de Vicente wrote:
> CVS commit by pvicente:
>
> Added a private function findMagnitude(KSNumbers *num) which computes the
> visual apparent magnitude (m_v) of the planets in class KSPlanetBase. The
> algorithm for computing it from the phase angle has been provided by Pere
> Planesas (OAN) for KStars. I am using a fixed distance between the Sun and
> Earth of 1 AU, instead of computing it to obtain the phase angle. The phase
> angle is obtained following Meeus book "Astronomical Algorithms".
>
> Function findMagnitude() is called within function findPosition() and
> therefore is executed for all solar system bodies. That means that the
> phase is computed for all bodies but the apparent magnitudes are only
> computed for the planets. The apparent magnitude is stored in the private
> member Magnitude of class skyObject.
>
> In class DetailDialog I filled in the magnitude item which up to now showed
> "--" for planets. Therefore I think that this addition does not break the
> partial feature freeze stage we are in KDE. I have also added by hand the
> apparent visual magnitude for the Sun to "-26.8".
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>   M +6 -3      detaildialog.cpp   1.48
>   M +59 -0     ksplanetbase.cpp   1.21
>   M +8 -0      ksplanetbase.h   1.24
>
>
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