Hi devs, I'm an amateur astronomer and aspiring Stellarium developer. As such, I really miss the possibility to know the surface brightness of an object from Stellarium.
Surface brightness is a very good metric to know how easily visible an object is. As of now, Stellarium does not display such info. The attached patch implements the display of surface brightness for extended objects. Its math pretty straightforward and comes from [1]. It was created from Stellarium 0.12.4 source code. Please review it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_brightness ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The best possible search technologies are now affordable for all companies. Download your FREE open source Enterprise Search Engine today! Our experts will assist you in its installation for $59/mo, no commitment. Test it for FREE on our Cloud platform anytime! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=145328191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
