On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:13 AM, Brandon Rhodes wrote:
Though, alas, it looks like the #1 Google search result for "XEphem" is??which is not yet a redirect. I don't have any quick recommendation to make because I'm not sure of the historical difference between index.html and xephem.html there.
They now both refer to reader to github.
I've added:
- Execpt?for the "gsc/*" directory, because it's not only heavy megabyte-wise but because it contains so many individual files that version control slows to a crawl. Hopefully it's redundant and folks can use the big star catalog instead? If not, then maybe we could commit a .tar.gz of it to version control and at least avoid the number-of-files problem. Let me know which course would be best.
They are complementary, not redundant. gsc goes to about visual magnitude 15. That cutoff was made, in part, so it would fit on what was the core DVD. The two large supplement GSC sets start at this magnitude and go to about mag 20.
I welcome any guidance on what to do with big directories like "xephem/lo/img/" and "xephem/gallery/" which are not catalogs, but are indeed binary resources. Would a third repository be appropriate? I'd welcome guidance here.
Perhaps the catalog repository could be renamed?
Supplementary then GSC and these could all go there?
FYI:
lo/img are the lunar images keyed to location in the
View -> Moon dialog.
galley is a misc collection of deep sky images accessed via
File -> Gallery. See section 3.2 in the manual.
