[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show Magellanic Clouds

[Jason Harris]

Hi Jerome,

The patch works great!  Thanks again, I'm going to apply it now.  Can
I ask where you got the contour data, and how it is licensed?  We need
to make sure that we have the right to distribute them.

Eventually, it might be nice to create a subclass of DeepSkyObject
that defines such a contour for the object.  With the current
implementation, we can see the LMC and SMC, but the LMC is not
clickable (so no Details window, no context menu, no image links,
etc.).  If we do this, we probably wouldn't make the entire contour
area clickable, but just add a small symbol at its centroid for
clicks.  Other objects off the top of my head that could use a
contour: Veil nebula, North American nebula, Barnard's Loop, Orion
Nebula, etc.

Thanks a lot!

Jason


On 8/17/08, Jérôme SONRIER <jsid at emor3j.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have made a patch to show Magellanic Clouds :
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77748 (bugs.kde.org is temporarily
> offline so I put the patch in attachment)
>
> I don't know the best way to implement it.
>
> Here's what I did :
> -MagellanicClouds is a copy of MilkyWay that has been modified to load
> lmc.dat and smc.dat instead of milkyway.dat
> -SkyMapComposite has been modifed to handle MagellanicClouds object
> -CMakeLists.txt files have been modified to build magellanicclouds.cpp
> and install lmc.dat and smc.dat
>
> I did my best to get precise coordinates of contour, but it's not easy,
> so please tell me if you have any good data about it.
>
>
> --
> Jérôme SONRIER
>