[Kstars-devel] Alternate clines.dat for HA Rey Constellations

[James Bowlin]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm converted about 2/3 of the clines file.  It's been fun.
So far I've found about 30 stars that I needed to connect to
but couldn't because they did not have names (like "alp Per")
in the hipNNN.dat files.

I've discovered how to add names to stars in the hipNNN.dat files
so I can use those names in the clines file to get the lines I need.
The changes I make should be 100% compatible with the existing system
because I am just adding names to stars that didn't have names.

I've got star charts available so I can use the official names when
I add new names.

I am planning on creating a patch file for the hipNNN.dat files to
go along with the new clines.dat file.


-
Peace, James


On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:53 pm, Jason wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> That's great.  I haven't heard of this alternate set of constellations,
> but this addition would be very welcome.  No one has told me that they
> are working on it, so please go ahead.
>
> regards,
> Jason
>
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 21:30, James Bowlin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to make an alternate clines.dat file that would contain
> > the constellation outlines given by H. A. Rey in "The Stars, a New
> > Way to See Them".
> >
> > I saw in the archives that someone is working on other alternate
> > clines.dat files but I didn't see anything regarding the Rey outlines.
> >
> > I'm posting this message in case someone else has already done this or
> > is in the process of doing it so we can avoid duplicated work.
> >
> > Kudos to all the developers for creating such a wonderful, fun to use
> > program.  Thank you all very much.