[Kstars-devel] Magnitude of Mars

[Akarsh Simha]

Hi,

> I was using Kstars tonight and I looked at the info/details for Mars.  I
> noticed that the current visual magnitude for Mars is listed as 15.3
> (March 18, 2008 23:04 US central time [GMT -5]) which is clearly
> incorrect.  I'm not sure if this is an error in the database or in the
> calculation which figures in distance, etc, but something is amiss.

Yes. I've noticed this bug too. KStars requires a lot of magnitude bug
fixes. The Comet magnitudes aren't calculated, and there are good
number of magnitude bugs in the default catalog as well.

Regards
Akarsh.
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