heraldtahiti wrote: > Hello, thanks for this great freeware! > i'd like the constellation lines not to touch the stars as displayed on > Wikipedia charts: i find it would greatly improve the visibility.. > > The constellation lines are in the file <ciel base>\data\constellation\*.cln. (in windows - I haven't checked under linux) You could modify one of these files to shorten the lines, but the offset would not vary as you zoomed in or out. > i.e display exactly this way: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Sagittarius_constellation_map-fr.png > > also adding diffraction spike to star brighter than +1 mag should help. > any idea how to do this ? > If you use the "photographic" stars, the bitmaps are in <ciel base>\starshape. You could modify these. Actually, some of them already have diffraction disks, but I am not sure how (or if) you can select which shapes you use. Perhaps someone else knows ? (If diffraction spikes were put on stars by default, all the refractor users would be up in arms !)
Hope this gives you some ideas, cheers, John Sunderland
