[Kstars-devel] NAN value for Venus Magnitude

[Andrew Buck]

> Thanks for the report.  The code to compute magnitudes of planets has  
> been reworked for kde-4.x, so it's fixed in the latest version.  At  
> this point, I don't know if there's going to be a 3.5.10 release, so  
> it might not be worth trying to fix this issue in the 3.5 codebase.

If its fixed in 4.x I wouldn't worry about backporting it, its a pretty
minor issue.  Thanks for the quick response by the way.

> > On a separate note however I did notice that Pluto is listed twice in
> > the "Find Object" window.
> >
> Ah, interesting.  Did you use the Get New Stuff tool to update your  
> ephemerides?  Probably the issue is that Pluto is now treated as an  
> asteroid in KStars, but in your version it might still be represented  
> as a planet as well.
> 
> If you zoom all the way in on Pluto, do you get two plutos?

I'll bet this is the problem.  I don't get two Pluto's when I zoom in
but I think I have used the update Ephemerides feature.  It might be
nice to include code in the update procedure to check for duplicate
names and possibly ask the user how they would like to remedy the
situation, i.e. keep the new one, keep the old one, keep both, etc.  It
should even be possible to compare the new and old ephemerides for the
duplicated object and if they are within a certain threshold of each
other just "keep the new one" by default.

-Buck