Ocular plugin FOV for wide angle lenses

Bug #1440330 reported by Khalid AlAjaji
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Stellarium
Fix Released
Wishlist
treaves

Bug Description

This a feature request for ocular plugin to add support for wide field short focal lengths lenses.

If I define a wide field angle lens (short focal length) as a telescope, the rectangular red box will not represent an accurate FOV for the sensor defined. The reason for that, I think, is that the plugin uses an approximation formula that is good for long focal lenses like telescopes. it states in ccd.hpp:
/**
   * The formula for this calculation comes from the Yerkes observatory.
   * fov degrees = 2PI/360degrees * chipDimension mm / telescope FL mm
   */

May be the exact formula will be good for both long and short focal lengths, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_view

Thanks

Tags: oculars plugin
Changed in stellarium:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → treaves (treaves)
summary: - Feature request: Ocular plugin FOV for wide angle lenses
+ Ocular plugin FOV for wide angle lenses
tags: added: oculars plugin
treaves (treaves)
Changed in stellarium:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: none → 0.14.0
Changed in stellarium:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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