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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    kdeedu/kstars/kstars
From:       Jason Harris <kstars () 30doradus ! org>
Date:       2004-02-01 20:33:07
Message-ID: 20040201203307.5170A9953 () office ! kde ! org
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CVS commit by harris: 

Improved Constellation Lines.  The "nodes" of the
constellation lines are now anchored to the actual 
stars, rather than being independent points on the sky.  
This means that as stars drift due to their proper motions, 
the constellations will automatically distort to keep up 
with the new star positions.  In addition, all 88 
constellations now have lines.

Thanks go to Clemens for identifying each of the stars that
make up the constellation nodes.  We identify stars by their
"Genitive name", which makes sense because these names refer
to the parent constellation (i.e., "alpha Andromedae").

One new feature required by this constellation scheme is
that it is now possible to have genitive star names that do
not contain greek letters (i.e., "51 Ursa Majoris").  At
this point, only those stars which are constellation nodes
have this new kind of genitive name, but there are thousands
of stars that could be named in this way, if someone wants
to tackle that :)

I also had to make minor changes to the way that star names
are assigned, in order to make this work properly.  Please
test!  Don't forget to run "make install", as data files
have changed.

Also added missing name for zeta Orionis: "Alnitak"

CCMAIL: kstars-devel@kde.org
CCMAIL: 72632-done@bugs.kde.org

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  M +54 -31    kstarsdata.cpp   1.112
  M +1 -2      starobject.cpp   1.19
  M +981 -742  data/clines.dat   1.7
  M +48 -48    data/hip001.dat   1.4
  M +8 -8      data/hip002.dat   1.3
  M +2 -2      data/hip003.dat   1.3



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