Mars texture not used in lower magnifications

[mlnoga]

Mars is rendered as a simple colored disk even at magnifications of 100x and 150x. In my 80mm ED refractor, I clearly see dark surface features and shapes at this magnification, which correspond to the Stellarium view at 300x when I add a virtual 2x barlow.

Could you please fix this, and use the texture as soon as the rendered image has more than 3x3 pixels or so? Better yet, make it configurable?

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

Actually the sphere with texture is used as soon as screen size >1pixel, but the combination of halo+sphere overexposes the texture. And of course, the tiny sphere will not show many markings in a subsampled texture. Not sure if halo should just be disabled when sphere is rendered in Ocular view?

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

When configuring something that yields 125x magnification, Mars sphere is 5 pixels in diameter, and no surface details are discernible even without halo. And switching Halo off as soon as sphere appears looks terrible.