[Kstars-devel] Tycho-2 Star catalog lacking Stars?

[Akarsh Simha]

> > Thanks for this valuable information. It is very much possible that
> > there are bugs in both the conversion process and in the drawing code.
> 
> I think it's the drawing code. I now found the stars. They are invisible, but 
> I can attach a label to them and see their details.

Thanks a billion. This helped me greatly while fixing the bug.

> > It would help if you could tell us which version of KStars you are
> > using as I fixed some of these bugs some day in the field. Many such
> > elusive bugs go unnoticed, and I must thank you for excavating these.
> 
> I'm using KStars 1.5.3 from KDE 4.3.2. Is there any way to build just a new 
> kstars from svn (ideally using the libs I have installed from rpm) without 
> building a complete new KDE?

Try using the packages from 4.3.2 and building KStars from trunk. I
don't think there's a "standard" shortcut to do that, but you should
be able to do this with some dirty hacks, since KStars isn't radically
affected by changes in kdelibs etc.

However, the recommended way of doing things is to build the whole of
KDE from scratch, so that it's easy to catch and resolve "upstream"
bugs in kdelibs etc.

> > It would also help if you could send us a screenshot of the
> > superimposed photograph indicating the missing stars.
> 
> I have attached the photograph with the missing stars marked (the marked group 
> in the center is M29). There might be more missing stars, but I think I found 
> all that are clearly visible on the photograph.

Thanks, that helped a lot.

This should now be fixed.

Regards
Akarsh