[Kstars-devel] provide equatorial coordinates also for epoch J2000.0

Khudyakov Alexey alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 11:04:11 CET 2009


В сообщении от 11 декабря 2009 02:18:58 Lukas Middendorf написал:
> Hi,
> 
> I have added the equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 to the Focus Box.
> Are there any objections against such a patch?
>
I'm not sure that it is useful. For many purposes difference between J2000 and 
current coordinates is negligible. And it's more important to know where 
object is now I think

Akarsh?

> Is there any nicer way to detect solar system objects, that do not have ra0
> and dec0 set (and for which the additional coordinates would not make
>  sense) instead of just checking for (0,0)?

Yes - SkyObject::isSolarSystem


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