Brandon, Thanks for spotting and fixing this problem, the star file has now been updated.
Curt. Brandon Craig Rhodes writes: > Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: > > >> Many FlightGear constellations have the wrong shapes ... whoever > >> built your star database (the data/Astro/stars file in CVS) made > >> the error of applying a negative sign only to the units, and not > >> the fractions, of the degrees field. > > > If you are positive the shapes are wrong it would be great to have > > an updated star database. You have to make sure the modified data > > could be licensed under the GPL though. > > In response to a private request from another developer, I went ahead > and generated a new star catalogue. I built it from exactly the same > source as it seems to have been built from before - the YBS.edb file > in the xephem distribution - which I hope leaves our stars file in the > same legal position it was before. > > I provided the developer with a URL to the new star database Tuesday > night, but have not yet seen it appear in CVS. Any other developers > who might be inclined to throw it in, feel welcome: > > http://ten22.rhodesmill.org/stars > > > But it might (just might) have something to do with the way they are > > drawn. Are you sure that is not the problem? > > I am positive; the coordinates in the stars file were simply wrong, > and fixing them repaired the constellations. Orion before: > > http://www.rhodesmill.org/tmp/orion-before.png > > Orion after: > > http://www.rhodesmill.org/tmp/orion-after.png > > -- > Brandon Craig Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rhodesmill.org/brandon > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
