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Discovery Date

Open narigama opened this issue 1 year ago • 7 comments

Would it be possible to include the discovery date and possibly who discovered a selected celestial object in the information panel?

— List added by @alex-w:

  • [x] Deep-Sky Objects: M
  • [x] Deep-Sky Objects: C
  • [ ] Deep-Sky Objects: NGC/IC
  • [x] Solar system objects: planets
  • [x] Solar system objects: moons
  • [x] Solar system objects: minor objects
  • [x] Solar system objects: comets

narigama avatar May 11 '23 11:05 narigama

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github-actions[bot] avatar May 11 '23 11:05 github-actions[bot]

I think @alex-w has just done that. Others have complained that there is too much information. We really should not overdo it. The WWW is full of info, and other databases (e.g. SIMBAD) are "official".

gzotti avatar May 11 '23 11:05 gzotti

I've added this info for Messier objects only as an additional data. I hope this feature will be added into next generation of DSO catalog as main feature. We may add discovery date and discoverer info for Solar system objects also as a main feature for some subset of objects (from our database only).

alex-w avatar May 11 '23 12:05 alex-w

Hello @narigama!

Thank you for suggesting this enhancement.

github-actions[bot] avatar May 11 '23 12:05 github-actions[bot]

Discovery Circumstances for Messier objects released in v23.1

alex-w avatar May 16 '23 14:05 alex-w

Discovery Circumstances for Solar System Objects will available in version 23.2

alex-w avatar Jun 04 '23 04:06 alex-w

Hello @narigama!

Please check the fresh version (development snapshot) of Stellarium: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/weekly-snapshot

alex-w avatar Jun 15 '23 06:06 alex-w