[Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/options

Akarsh Simha akarshsimha at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 03:47:34 CEST 2009


SVN commit 998579 by asimha:

Provide an option to enable / disable general relativistic corrections
in the Advanced settings tab.

CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org



 M  +13 -0     opsadvanced.ui  


--- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/options/opsadvanced.ui #998578:998579
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@
     </widget>
    </item>
    <item>
+    <widget class="QCheckBox" name="kcfg_UseRelativistic" >
+     <property name="toolTip" >
+      <string>Correct for the effect of sun's gravity on star positions, as predicted by General Relativity, and verified by Eddington's experiment.</string>
+     </property>
+     <property name="whatsThis" >
+      <string>The atmosphere bends light passing through it, like a lens.  If this item is checked, this "atmospheric refraction" will be simulated in the sky map.  Note that this correction is only applied when using the Horizontal coordinate system.</string>
+     </property>
+     <property name="text" >
+      <string>General Relativity effects near the sun</string>
+     </property>
+    </widget>
+   </item>
+   <item>
     <widget class="QCheckBox" name="kcfg_UseAnimatedSlewing" >
      <property name="toolTip" >
       <string>Show slewing motion when focus changes?</string>


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