[Kstars-devel] [X-POST] Question about Coma Diameters of Comets

[Akarsh Simha]

> > I've put in the formulae into KStars. They seem to be giving
> > reasonable estimates.
> Nice to see it's working.
> 
> I built it from svn-trunk and it's working fine. The positions seems
> rigth accurate but the magnitude estimation is not similar to other
> programms.
> For 144P/Kushida (i hope i can take a picture of it tonight) Guide,
> SkyChart and The Sky(c) are showing a magnitude of 11.2 but KStars shows
> 13.6.
> 
> Also the sun distance is wrong (2.33 in KStars, 1.45 in all other progs).
> 
> The real brightness is around mag 9 to 10 now. therefore the estimation
> of mag 11.2 is not so bad.

Hi Jeamy

Thanks for the testing. I'll look into the code whenever I next get
time.

Regards
Akarsh