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Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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Option to disable object brightness #1308

Open RacerBG opened 4 years ago

RacerBG commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

My feature request is related to the artificial brightness (or glow) of the celestial objects while zooming in.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to suggest an option in the settings page of the planetarium to disable the bightness or the glow effect of the celestial objects (mainly planets and moons). For example when looking at Saturn with a telescope (depends on the magnification) you should see a clear disk and rings shape and no glow at all.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None.

Additional context

Saturn

Mars

Regards, Georgi

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gzotti commented 4 years ago

The "halo glow" vanishes automatically as you zoom in to get a clearer picture. Without this "halo" planets would vanish from view as they become too small. With too little magnification (3x plastic binoculars), you may also not be able to see Saturn's rings clearly.

RacerBG commented 4 years ago

The "halo glow" vanishes automatically as you zoom in to get a clearer picture. Without this "halo" planets would vanish from view as they become too small. With too little magnification (3x plastic binoculars), you may also not be able to see Saturn's rings clearly.

Yes, I know that. If disabling it it's not a viable option then partially removing it at higher zoom levels would be fine too. The pictures which I created represent something around 50x-70x zoom compared to real life.

axd1967 commented 3 years ago

See also https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/pull/1361

LSAXYZ321 commented 1 year ago

www.stellarium-web.org via webbrowser do this way better, you can zoom more, like 5 times smaller FOV, so you can see Mars moons clearly. With Stellarium software they are just big glowing discs, instead of a single pixel when zooming out