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authorGeorg Zotti <Georg.Zotti@univie.ac.at>2022-03-19 21:35:53 +0100
committerGeorg Zotti <Georg.Zotti@univie.ac.at>2022-03-19 21:35:53 +0100
commit3a0c18c503b841c55d73bed5848da40cb982a3f1 (patch)
tree259ac21f1e551ae1eeba1101fee5eea5e6659c11
parent8dac1b4fcc6276d528f34a16e57a16c125486825 (diff)
SUG: Add skyculture map.
-rw-r--r--guide/app_config_ini.tex18
-rw-r--r--guide/ch_skycultures.tex19
-rw-r--r--guide/pictures/stellarium-skycultures-map.jpgbin0 -> 268179 bytes
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/guide/app_config_ini.tex b/guide/app_config_ini.tex
index f88c892e44..41ba010db4 100644
--- a/guide/app_config_ini.tex
+++ b/guide/app_config_ini.tex
@@ -548,18 +548,18 @@ last\_location & string & Coordinates of last used location in stellarium.\\\
\begin{longtable}{l|l|p{68mm}}\toprule
\emph{ID} & \emph{Type} & \emph{Description}\\\midrule
atmosphere\_fade\_duration & float & Sets the time (seconds) it takes for the atmosphere to fade when de-selected\\%\midrule
-flag\_landscape & bool & Set to \emph{false} if you don't want to see the landscape at all\\%\midrule
-flag\_fog & bool & Set to \emph{false} if you don't want to see fog on start-up\\%\midrule
-flag\_atmosphere & bool & Set to \emph{false} if you don't want to see atmosphere on start-up\\%\midrule
-flag\_landscape\_sets\_location & bool & Set to \emph{true} if you want Stellarium to modify the observer location
+flag\_landscape & bool & Set \emph{false} if you don't want to see the landscape at start-up\\%\midrule
+flag\_fog & bool & Set \emph{false} if you don't want to see fog on start-up\\%\midrule
+flag\_atmosphere & bool & Set \emph{false} if you don't want to see atmosphere on start-up\\%\midrule
+flag\_landscape\_sets\_location & bool & Set \emph{true} if you want Stellarium to modify the observer location
when a new landscape is selected (changes planet and longitude/latitude/altitude
if location data is available in the landscape.ini file)\\%\midrule
minimal\_brightness & float & Set minimal brightness for landscapes. [0\ldots1] Typical value: \emph{0.01}\\%\midrule
-atmosphereybin & int & Set atmosphere binning coefficient for axis Y.\\%\midrule
-flag\_minimal\_brightness & bool & Set to \emph{true} to use minimal brightness for landscape.\\%\midrule
-flag\_landscape\_sets\_minimal\_brightness & bool & Set to \emph{true} to use value for minimal brightness for landscape from landscape settings.\\%\midrule
-flag\_enable\_illumination\_layer & bool & Set to \emph{true} to use illumination layer for landscape.\\%\midrule
-flag\_enable\_labels & bool & Set to \emph{true} to use landscape labels from gazetteer layer.\\%\midrule
+atmosphereybin & int & Atmosphere tessellation coefficient for Y axis. Default=44.\\%\midrule
+flag\_minimal\_brightness & bool & Set \emph{true} to use minimal brightness for landscape.\\%\midrule
+flag\_landscape\_sets\_minimal\_brightness & bool & Set \emph{true} to use value for minimal brightness for landscape from landscape settings.\\%\midrule
+flag\_enable\_illumination\_layer & bool & Set \emph{true} to use illumination layer for landscape.\\%\midrule
+flag\_enable\_labels & bool & Set \emph{true} to use landscape labels from gazetteer layer.\\%\midrule
atmospheric\_extinction\_coefficient & float & Set atmospheric extinction coefficient $k$ [mag/airmass]\\%\midrule
temperature\_C & float & Set atmospheric temperature [Celsius]\\%\midrule
pressure\_mbar & float & Set atmospheric pressure [mbar]\\%\midrule
diff --git a/guide/ch_skycultures.tex b/guide/ch_skycultures.tex
index 6556d46f38..a9bd232a1b 100644
--- a/guide/ch_skycultures.tex
+++ b/guide/ch_skycultures.tex
@@ -7,13 +7,24 @@
\label{ch:SkyCultures}
\chapterauthor*{Georg Zotti, with additions by Alexander Wolf}
-Stellarium comes with a nice set of skycultures. For ethnographers or
+\begin{figure}[th]\centering
+\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{stellarium-skycultures-map.jpg}
+\caption{World map showing Stellarium's built-in set of
+ skycultures. To avoid overcrowding, smaller European skycultures
+ which are mostly derivatives of the ``Western'' skyculture are not
+ shown. (Image: S. M. Hoffmann)}
+\label{fig:skycultures}
+\end{figure}
+
+
+\noindent Stellarium comes with a nice set of skycultures from all
+over the world (Fig.~\ref{fig:skycultures}). For ethnographers or
historians of science it may be a worthwhile consideration to
illustrate the sky culture of the people they are studying. It is not
very hard to do so, but depending on your data, may require some
-skills in image processing.
+skills in image processing.
-Some features regarding translation and multilingual have evolved
+Some features regarding translation and multilinguality have evolved
over the years, and not all skycultures currently included in
Stellarium adhere to the standards described in the following
sections. Skycultures will also see continuous development in the
@@ -49,6 +60,7 @@ classification=personal
\noindent (or what seems best for you). The name is used for the list entry in
the Starlore tab in the View dialog (see \ref{sec:gui:view:starlore}).
+\paragraph{boundaries}
The option ``boundaries'' is optional and may contain the follow values:
\begin{description}
\item[none] --- this value is enabled by default and it designates that this culture doesn't have boundaries of constellations.
@@ -56,6 +68,7 @@ The option ``boundaries'' is optional and may contain the follow values:
\item[own] --- please use it for culture who has own set of boundaries for constellations.
\end{description}
+\paragraph{classification}
The option ``classification'' is also optional. \newFeature{0.19.0} It allows some form of quality control:
\begin{description}
\item[personal] -- this is a personally developed skyculture which
diff --git a/guide/pictures/stellarium-skycultures-map.jpg b/guide/pictures/stellarium-skycultures-map.jpg
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