Nebulas positions

[Reiko]

Are coordinates used for nebulas in DSC files the same format as those used for stars in STC files?

[jogad]

NO
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/DSC_File

Right Ascension in fractional Hours (unlike STC catalogs, which use fractional degrees)

And bebore you ask, replace the line 67

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 obsRAStr = deg2str(obsRA);

by

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 obsRAStr = deg2str(obsRA / 15);

[Reiko]

Thank you again. You're my hero!

[ajtribick]

This was one of the reasons I decided to put in the facility to specify units. Unless you are building from the trunk though, it might be a while, you'll have to wait for 1.7.0...

(And unfortunately 1.6.1 has been delayed by a Mac graphics bug...)