Toggle visible only satellite tracks

[Den Spiess]

Stellarium has been very useful in identifying satellites. We also use it to predict passes we'd like to observe.

I suggest that you add a toggle so it only displays tracks of satellites that are actually visible (not in eclipse) and it shows where a satellite will enter or exit eclipse, if it does. Sites such as heavens-above.com do this and it really helps.

Thanks
Den

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Isn't this related to bug #907318?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/907318

I may look into it when I start working on the next Satellites version.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

It's similar request but not same.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Den, are you meant drawing part of track, when satellite is visible?

[Den Spiess (dens1950)]

Yes. Refer to the heavens above site. You can toggle visible only sats.
and yes then it only shows the visible part of a track,

On 6/17/2015 2:24 PM, Alexander Wolf wrote:
> Den, are you meant drawing part of track, when satellite is visible?
>

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 7708 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7708

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Color for invisible satellites and their orbit can be set in config.ini file.

Hint: Satellites/invisible_satellite_color = 0.2,0.2,0.2