[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Support of non-western constellations

[Akarsh Simha]

> > Notes :
> > Lots of constellations are missing because some stars don't have a Bayer
> > designation and I can not use them in clines.dat (e.g. HD224926,
> > HD2411,...). Is there a way to use this stars in clines.dat ?
> 
> Why not converting everything to use the HD numbers rather than Bayer 
> designation? I guess no constellation uses a star which does not have a HD 
> number.

This might be a good idea. I've added a HD field to every StarObject
that could be retrieved using StarObject::getHDIndex(). We could base
the "matching" for stars on that rather than Bayer
designation. There's a StarComponent::findByHDIndex() for this. Unlike
earlier, this will require no change in the catalogs :). Besides, the
startup might become faster because we are doing number matching
rather than string matching.

I still haven't looked at the patch and will do so this weekend.

Regards
Akarsh
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