I dunno if any developers would be interested in following this: I've been trying to track down some accurate equations to figure out the apparent and absolute magnitudes of planets for a celx script I'm writing.
The 'blog' of the script development is here:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62716
Have any developers ever attempted to add this to the core code of Celestia? I'm guessing that someone must have tried to do this at some point but gave up because of the difficulties involved? Ultimately once I've sorted this out I'd rather like to see it incorporated into Celestia's source, since there's already a display that shows the absolute and apparent magnitudes of stars in there.