[Kstars-devel] branches/kstars/summer/kdeedu/kstars

[James Bowlin]

On Fri June 13 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> + Incorporating Tycho 1 star catalog down to magnitude 12.

Wow!  It looks awesome!   Congratulations!

The stars load magically fast on start-up.  I love it.

> It's amazing to see so much star density. Maybe the magnitude limit
> formula requires a little more tweaking, because it is displaying far
> too many stars at intermediate zoom levels and that is causing
> zoom-in to respond a little slowly.

You can try reducing the 4.444 factor in the maglim equation down to 3.5 
or even 2.5.  I set it to 3.0 and that seems to fix the problem for my
current settings.  


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Peace, James