Using Stellarium 10.6 in Mac OS X 10.6, when the projection is set to Hammer-Aitoff, the Spheric Mirror distortion is turned on, and the up arrow is pressed so the azimuth is dead ahead, there is a flickering dark-yellow arc that appears. If I press the down arrow, the arc gets smaller then finally disappears. If I press the up arrow to get the azimuth into the center, the flickering arc reappears.
This only happens in Hammer-Aitoff projection. All other projections are fine. This artifact also occurs when Spheric Mirror distortion is turned off but appears as a flickering horizontal line. I was able to replicate this on an iMac and a MacBook.
Log.txt is as follows:
2010-12-30T12:30:36
Mac OS X 10.6
Compiled with GCC 4.0.1
Qt runtime version: 4.7.0
Qt compilation version: 4.7.0
Addressing mode: 32-bit
You look like a Mac user. How would you like to write some system info code here? That would help a lot.
/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/MacOS/stellarium
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[ This is Stellarium 0.10.6 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Writing log file to: "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
0 . "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium"
1 . "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources"
Config file is: "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium/config.ini"
OpenGL supported version: "1.4 APPLE-1.6.6"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL"
Cache directory is: "/Users/girasoli/Library/Caches/stellarium/stellarium"
Sky language is "C"
Application language is "C"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits from "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
Loading star data ...
"Loading "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "/Applications/Stellarium.app/Contents/Resources/stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Use OpenGL framebuffer objects for viewport effect: "sphericMirrorDistorter"
Creating GUI ...
Loaded plugin "CompassMarks" .
CompassMarks plugin - press control-C to toggle compass marks
Loaded plugin "Oculars" .
Ocular plugin - press Command-O to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration.
Oculars::validateIniFile ocular.ini exists at: "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium/modules/Oculars/ocular.ini" . Checking version...
Oculars::validateIniFile found existing ini file version 2
Loaded plugin "Satellites" .
Satellites::getJsonFileVersion() version from file: "0.6.4"
Satellites::init using satellite.json file: "/Users/girasoli/Library/Application Support/Stellarium/modules/Satellites/satellites.json"
Loaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor" .
Using the ssystem.ini file that already exists in the user directory...
Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration" .
Unloaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration" .
Unloaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor" .
Unloaded plugin "Satellites" .
Unloaded plugin "Oculars" .
Unloaded plugin "CompassMarks" .
Downloaded 0 files (0 kbytes) in a session of 211.933 sec (average of 0 kB/s + 0 files from cache (0 kB)).
I don't able to replicate this on my iMac.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.5 with Intel Graphics Card (OpenGL supported version: "1.4 APPLE-1.6.24")