[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show names for 'a Centauri' etc.

James Bowlin bowlin at mindspring.com
Wed Jul 16 00:34:37 CEST 2008


On Tue July 15 2008, you wrote:
> This patch shows the names for stars like 'a Centauri' etc. Which are
> stored in the catalog as '.a  Cen'. I hope there was no reason to
> avoid this.

Names starting with a dot were my invention.  I made those names up and
they should not be shown to the user.  The idea was they were "hidden"
names, sort of like hidden files in a Unix file system.  I created them
so we could draw constellation lines to stars that had no official name.

-- 
Peace, James


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