[Kstars-devel] Center & Track McNaught 2006 P1 caused hyperwarp jump

[Peter Baitz]

Jason,

Only happened the one time thus far and not
recreatable, and I am able to search and find, or
track McNaught OK.  

Thank you,

Peter


--- Jason Harris <jharris at 30doradus.org> wrote:

> We've seen this problem before; basically, the focus
> position becomes 
> undefined.  But I haven't heard about it happening
> in a long time.
> 
> Is it happening consistently for you, or did it just
> happen one time?
> If you can repeat the problem, then I may be able to
> track it down.  If not, 
> there's not much I can do.  I am not having any
> problem tracking McNaught 
> here.
> 
> Let me know if it keeps happening, and in fact, if
> it happens again, quit 
> KStars immediately and send me your kstarsrc file,
> and your 
> $KDEHOME/share/apps/kstars/comets.dat.
> 
> thanks,
> Jason
> 
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:13, Peter Baitz wrote:
> > Jason,
> >
> > I'm not sure what exactly happened or cause it,
> but on
> > my FC6 Linux with Kstars 1.2.5, I downloaded the
> > latest ephemeris data 2007.01, stopped and
> restarted
> > Kstars, did a search for comet object McNaught
> 2006
> > P1, found it, did a center & track, and soon as I
> did
> > this, the Kstars field jumped out to literally
> > 2billion or 2 trillion degrees Azimuth and same
> but
> > negative for Altitude, and the Right Ascention and
> > Declination followed - as displayed in the bottom
> > right hand corner, and the whole starfield was
> > black/blank, and the +/- keys were grayed out or
> not
> > working.  I closed down Kstars and back up, and it
> > came back up the same.  I then asked Kstars to
> search
> > for the Sun object and it found it - but the whole
> > starfield was the size of a tennis ball until I
> then
> > used the "+" key a bunch of times to zoom in to a
> > normal view.
> >
> > Could there still be any problem with the McNaught
> > 2006 P1 format or something else in another data
> file?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> -- 
> Jason Harris
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> 



 
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