Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] showing patterns in the sky

2015-09-29 Thread Alexander Wolf
Dear Harm Munk, 2015-09-29 23:01 GMT+06:00 Harm Munk : > We have hooked up Stellarium to the Dwingeloo radio telescope. Having > this connection is great when operating the telescope for the general > public. After all, radio astronomy can be done in broad daylight, and > members of the general p

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] showing patterns in the sky

2015-09-29 Thread Georg Zotti
Hi! Yes, having one marker texture and showing it several times is also possible. See the test scripts at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/files/head:/scripts/tests/, esp the sky_image[1-4].ssc Good luck! Georg On Di, 29.09.2015, 21:20, Harm Munk wrote: > Hey Thanks Ge

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] showing patterns in the sky

2015-09-29 Thread Harm Munk
Hey Thanks Georg. It took a few minutes reading and thinking, but I think I understand how we can do this. In fact, I think I'll make one image file containing an observing location marker, and load multiple instances of that image file at each of the observing locations in an observing run.

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] showing patterns in the sky

2015-09-29 Thread Georg Zotti
Hi! This sounds great! You could use a script to load a texture that e.g. covers 1x1 or 4x4 degrees and shows your scanning pattern. See Scripting API, function loadSkyImage: http://stellarium.org/doc/head/classStelMainScriptAPI.html#a66ce7ef6ee92961e42d558ea10f77ce6 To create the texture you c