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I need it to know when sun, moon, planet,or star is at a specific altitude above some other feature, such as a tower. can we please stop the bickering? several...

Note also that the twilight finder does not allow positive altitudes, which is questionable. please don't explain to me that there is no twilight when the Sun is above the...

> So, you didn't check the feature... @alex-w I can use "at altitude" but I want "at azimuth" instead (which is not "at transit") in other words: what is the...

See also https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4686/how-often-does-the-iss-orbit-align-with-the-day-night-terminator

No, it is not the idea to do plate recognition or look for new comets, discover comets, or use the result of stacking. The user that reported a comet is...

> No: The the user did not mistook it. BTW, how can you mistake a comet whith nebula? :-) Messier wanted to get rid of those pesky smudges that looked...

> > :-) Messier wanted to get rid of those pesky smudges that looked like comets :-) > > Yes, but not our days, where you have huge catalogues covering...

> ff621a11df8f037b533424b0d829cfc6ed0a9962) Sure! But it should be a user decision to deal with a slow application: the user should understand the implication of showing all such objects. The default setting...

In case the user would opt to ignore all magnitudes, the icon from #1332 could be used to plot comet positions.

Interesting related comment: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/blob/01834bb2ab5a1f23381bd3547a4b2ecdf3d031dd/src/core/modules/Comet.cpp#L415-L418