Unusual meteor shower display

[StellariumUser20]

I would like to report another bug about the meteor showers plugin, where the meteors come from the radiant in a weird way.

When not looking at the radiant, meteors only appear on the horizon/low sky.
When looking at the radiant, meteors show up at intervals. The meteor showers radiate in a way like fireworks, or like a 3-blade ceiling fan.

I can't attach any snapshots here due to my slow internet connection. Anyone else who has the same problem and willing to post some snapshots are welcome to do so.

By the way, I'm using Stellarium 0.13.3, with a Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit PC.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Meteor Showers plugin has been updated in newest version of Stellarium and I guess we already fixed this issue. Please try version 0.13.90.2

[Marcos Cardinot (cardinot)]

Hi,

Yeah, weird things were happening with meteors for some Windows users...
We pushed several patches to the Meteor Showers plugin, and I hope that all these issues have been fixed!

As Alexander said, please, try it with 0.13.90.2 (https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/trunk)
and let us know if it works fine for your end by now.

Thanks for your report,
Marcos

[StellariumUser20 (kishenrao-20)]

Hey there,

I've downloaded the new today-released version 0.13.95.0 (version 0.13.90.2 was there a few hours ago and then when I reloaded the page the abovementioned new version replaced it)

The meteors radiate fine (I was viewing the 1833 Leonids) but slightly faster – have you guys updated the meteors' speed to its actual speed in real life?

One more thing, why the Quadrantids radiant for the year 2014 and 2015 is at Canis Major?
The radiant is at its place for the years before and after.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

>have you guys updated the meteors' speed to its actual speed in real life?

Yes, we use actual speed of the meteors in our model

> One more thing, why the Quadrantids radiant for the year 2014 and 2015 is at Canis Major? The radiant is at its place for the years before and after.

I can confirm the issue. Marcos, can you look it?

[StellariumUser20 (kishenrao-20)]

Here's an attachment so you can see. By the way it's at Lepus, not Canis Major. Both are close to the radiant anyway.

[Marcos Cardinot (cardinot)]

Hi,
yeah, you're right!

I created a new bug report to discuss it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1507196

Good catch! Many thanks! =D