Re: [Celestia-developers] reverse Observer Orientation and Quaternions

[Fridger S. <t0...@ma...>]

Christophe Teyssier wrote:
> 
> On Monday 16 December 2002 00:03, Christophe Teyssier wrote:
> > What'd be nice would be to have a URL syntax that represents a location
> > on/relative to a body. Something like:
> > cel://SyncOrbit/Body/?long=...&lat=...&alt=...
> > That way you can even bookmark your home town ;-)
> 
> Would it be possible to get the longitude/latitude under the mouse cursor? It
> would be useful to have a 'Land there' function in the popup menu.
> 
> --
> Christophe
> 

I am thinking about a permanent cursor readout of long/lat | alt/azimuth
under the cursor since quite some time, latest since you incorporated those
nice popups that contain all the info of the upper left corner in the display.

In XEphem, we have exactly the same setup: infos about selected object in the
popup (3rd mouse button) and continuous readout of ra|dec and alt|az in the
upper left corner. That's a proven solution, very practical, indeed.

However the actual selection should always be visible in the upper left, I
think. It is very important in Celestia.

Bye Fridger