[Kstars-devel] Kstars-devel Digest, Vol 46, Issue 8

[Akarsh Simha]

I'm sorry... please ignore my previous reply in this thread - it makes
no sense whatever and I was confused while writing that.

How would one predict occultations though?
The only way I can think of is keep increasing (or decreasing) the
time in certain small steps and check if the occultation is going to
happen. But that will be extremely slow, or so I think.

A modification I see to the above is that we ask the user to input a
time range and then do some kind of a smart search which also applies
some logic to guess an estimate and then search around that.

Any better ideas?

On 5/28/07, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok. Thanks for that. I guess I should be able to do it easily if the
> heliocentric longitudes are computed somewhere. I'll take a look into
> this.
>
> On 5/28/07, brian hurren <brianhurren at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Akarsh, have a go at writing a class for occultations.
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> > Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:55:29 +0530
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> > I am new to this mailing list. I am Akarsh Simha, a student of
> > Physics, from Bangalore, India and an amateur astronomer. Am not very
> > well acquainted with Linux programming, though I can do some coding in
> > C++.
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> > I was looking through KStars and found a few bugs, which I'm posting here:
> >
> > 1. The highlighted constellation boundaries do not coincide with the
> > actual boundaries when zoomed in.
> > 2. Io and Europa are not displaying correctly
> > 3. Constellation names in the object identification that pops up when
> > you right click on the object shows the constellations' three letter
> > abbreviations instead of the name.
> > 4. I opened the Object Details dialog and clicked on the image to do
> > an image search. After I closed the image search dialog, I got a
> > segmentation fault. I have saved the Backtrace that KDE generated.
> > 5. It seems like there is no display symbol for asteroids. I feel that
> > the symbol for comets need to be something more meaningful.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Akarsh
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Regards,
     Akarsh
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