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[Rob Spearman <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 19:13 +0200, Lionel RUIZ wrote:
> Hello Rob,
>  
> > We are preparing to release 11.7.1 next week.
> 
> Great!
>  
> > We found some serious errors in the Stellarium star catalogs we had
> > planned on using, so we had to switch to different catalogs. I just
> 
> I remarked some funny stars too.
> And Capella was categorized M star instead of G star.
> (It was a mistake that was also in the previous Nightshade catalog
> though).
> It appeared too red for this kind of star.

We'll have to check on that.

>  
> > committed those to bzr today, so be sure to check those out.
> 
> Good to hear.
> I managed to fix it a little bit by changing the Star spectrum
> settings by changing the
>  
> HipStarMgr::color_table

Do you want to propose a patch?

>  
> With far better values.
> Changes that I did for stellarium 9 some (long) time ago.
> It solves the problem of Antares appearing too red and then seems
> attenuated.
>  
> > Last week we resolved some bugs related to star appearance settings,
> so
> > Lionel, see if that fixed any of your concerns.
> 
> I'm enjoying in advance the tests.

You mean it's working better or you are looking forward to testing? :)

>  
> > I think otherwise we are good to package and test.
> 
> I have also a lot of coding to propose before that.
> (Precession circle values, possibility to draw some informations for
> nautical purpose, nebula replacement objects, ...).
> I'm also working on adding new sky cultures but it'll need some more
> adjustments.

We're already a month late on this release, so we are still in a code
freeze other than major bug fixes.  We'll have to merge these in after
11.7.1 goes out.

Rob

>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Lionel RUIZ
>