Re: [Celestia-developers] Deep sky objects update

[Christophe T. <ch...@te...>]

On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:08, Chris Laurel wrote:
> I'm considering adding a new DeepSkyObject subclass called OpenCluster.
> The render method for OpenCluster will be empty; it will serve mostly as
> a marker (when labelling is on) that is also selectable.  Does this seem
> useful?  Currently, labels for the Pleaides, Hyades, Beehive, etc. are
> missing in Celestia.

Yes, that'd certainly be useful. 

As a side note, I think an object (or selection) marker would be useful too. 
At the moment when selecting an object by name you get no visual indication 
as to where that object is, the only solution is to center it and try and 
locate it at the center of the display. 

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Christophe