Re: [Celestia-developers] Very confusing distance displays

[Fridger S. <fri...@de...>]

Selden,

Celestia /only/ displays "distance to center" when the observer is INSIDE the 
galaxy, like in case of our Milky Way as seen from Earth. "Distance to border" 
would be stupid in this exceptional case. For good reasons I used /throughout/ 
"distance to border" when the observer is "outside" the DSO (which is the case 
for most galaxies).

This is unsuitable for user configuration, since lots of stuff depends on the 
respective definitions, including the galaxy brightness profile etc...

Bye Fridger

Selden E Ball Jr schrieb:
> Celestia automatically changes from "distance to center" 
> to "distance to radius surface" when observing objects.
> 
> This can be extremly confusing when observing models that
> have no obvious surfaces like my models of 2df galaxy distributions.
> 
> Suggestion: make the distance display configurable:
> distance to center, distance to surface, auto-switch.
> 
> s.
> 
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