Option to display azimuth from south instead of north
Bug #1313267 reported by
iblue
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Stellarium |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Alexander Wolf | ||
Bug Description
This is more a feature request than a bug report.
In my astronomy class we calculate the azimuth from south to west (which is according to my tutor the convention in astronomy). An assignment was to calculate the azimuth of two objects. I checked my results against Stellarium and got the exact opposite. After long hours of trying to find my mistake, and blaming it on the formulas in the lecture notes, we figured out, Stellarium shows the azimuth from north to east.
I wanted to change that, but did not find any option in Stellarium to do so. It would be a nice feature.
I am running version 0.12.1 on Ubuntu 13.10.
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| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in stellarium: | |
| status: | New → Opinion |
Revision history for this message
| Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in stellarium: | |
| milestone: | none → 0.14.0 |
| assignee: | nobody → Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) |
| status: | Opinion → Fix Committed |
| Changed in stellarium: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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In modern astronomy azimuth is measured from the north towards the east along the horizon.