Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use kstars via a projector in order to create a > realistic sky map of the day of her birth in her room. I've resolved > most of the technical problems involved (I still need to pick the > correct projection type and figure out how to position the projector > completely vertical), but there is another problem I'm facing. In its > default mode, kstars simply displays too many stars. > > When you click it in order to move the display around, it shows just > the major stars, and that view has about the right amount of stars for > us to paint on the ceiling and walls, but when stationary, there are > simply too many stars in the view. > > I've tried to find a way to limit the view to "only the most bright > stars", to no avail. > > If anyone has any idea (an idea that recommends a different program is > also okay), please say so.
I admit that although I am a (former) astrophysicist I gave kstars only the briefest of looks in the past. I just fired it up because you made me curious. A really neat idea, by the way. Go to Settings -> Configure Kstars and try to reduce "star density" (in the "catalogs" tab). As far as I can tell, this effectively limits the magnitude of shown object. I think it is somewhat limited, and it does not let you just set a numeric value for the faintest magnitufde. Does it help? Also, in the same screen you can disable "deep sky" catalogs. After a few minutes of playing with that I think I see only a rather small dfference between the number of stars while moving and stationary. The moving settings, by the way, are in the Advanced tab of the configuration window. I might have goofed or done something you don't want to do. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
