[Kstars-devel] Some user feedback

[Akarsh Simha]

Hello all.

I think the features that Alexey has mentioned are definitely worth
introducing, because these are the same drawbacks I found with KStars:
there is no magnitude filter - especially in the What's Up Tonight
feature, and the star catalog is too limited.

I feel that we should work towards implementing these.

On 5/28/07, Alexey Khudyakov <alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm student and amauter astronomer. I want to tell tell about my
> exprience with kstars.
> I tried it as tool for observaion planning and it turned out that
> kstars isn't good enough to
> be useful. But I think it could be really good.
>
> I wrote about thing I miss/dislike in kstars. It's based on my
> exprience with kstar from KDE3.5
> and freshly compiled SVN version. I've interested in joining
> development process. Now I'm
> looking throw sources.
>
> First and worst thing are catalogs. Star calaog is very very poor.
> Faintest magnitude is 7.5m
> It's not sufficient even for visual observations. And looks as joke
> for astrophoto. It's relatively
> easy to get 14m stars with modern equipment. (Canon EOS 300D and
> fairly good lens and 5
> minutes exposure) Identification of photographed object becomes impossible.
>
> Second - filtering. I want to see only things I want too see.
> Filtering abilities of kstars are between
> bad and nonexistent. I can tell kstars to show me deep-sky objects and
> not stars and planets
> but it's not sufficient for me. I can't set kstars to display globular
> clusters brighter than 10m
> and stars. When I searching for globlar clusters I don't need nor
> galaxies nor nebulae.
> And too faint objects only clutter window and slows down rendering.
>
> Third - deep-sky rendering. Deep-skyes are rendered as outlines. I
> think, they should be filled
> with some color. It's too easy to overlook them. And deepskyes smaller
> than certain size should
> be rendered as symbols. One pixel deep-sky is very hard to notice and
> doesn't make much
> sense.
>
> Fourth - right button menu. It seems illogical for me. I expect to see
> impotant parameters but I don't gt them. For stars most important
> parameters are magnitude and coordinates, not spectral
> class. For deep-skyes angular size adds.
>
> And number of not-so-important wishes.
>
>
> P.S Please don't tell me to put my wishes/bug reports to bug tracking
> system. I know about
> it and I'll post them there later. This letter is general picture from
> my point of view.
>
> P.P.S Sorry for my english :-)
>
> ---
> Regards,
>   Alexey
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     Akarsh
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