Update guided tour script #1909
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Update tour destinations file.
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Tour Guide is a menu item in GTK, Qt, win32 and user documentation. It allows various celestial objects to be displayed at the user's request. The actual tour is performed by reading the file guide.cel in the install directory. This file has not been updated in 16 years. This work updates the file to add several items/areas of interest that have been active since then. It also removes several items that are not supported by the present core data files. Specifically, Albireo is described as a double star, but displays as a single star. The Hyades and Pleiades have more bright stars in photographs than is being displayed, so a check of the data files is in order - but they remain in the tour. Proxima Centauri cannot be seen as part of the Alpha Centauri star system. Additional items of interest can be added to the tour, but the data files do not support them. The work was confined to items in the common data files, not addon data which the user may not have. This is a suggested edit of the tour guide. Other potential objects (when properly documented in common data files) are: TRAPPIST-1f (earth-sized exoplanet in habitable zone of star) Churyumov-Gerasimenko/67P (comet was location of first spacecraft to land on comet - Rosetta/Philae; comet has unique structure and will require model) This file is displayed to the user, so translation is needed. However, there is no code involved in the file. Therefore if a particular language is not updated, it will not affect the user's system. They will merely see the older version of the guided tour. This is a draft/suggestion if others want to edit or add/subtract items. Note: The win32 window for the user interface is a fixed size. Any significant modifications should be checked in that user interface. GTK and Qt interface windows are automatically resized. |
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The multiple commits are due to testing the object distance on multiple systems and user interfaces. They all perform somewhat differently. This is the best compromise I have found. It just affects how large the object is displayed, and zoom features can be readily used to change the distance/object size. Please merge/flatten all the commits if this request is added to the Celestia source. |
Update tour destinations file.