1.5.0pre3 bugs

[Chuft-Captain]

Linuxman, it is possible you may find your rocket 15-20km to the west.

http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11239

[linuxm@n]

Problem of time in celestia version 1.5.0pre3.

By making a simple positioning of an object in LongLat in a file ssc with date of beginning, the object does not appear per good hour. (idem for the ending).
For example if I put Beginning at ?€?2000 01 01 12:00: 00?€

[selden]

What are you using to measure the "good hour"?

If you are using the time shown on the screen, which is UTC, are you remembering to include the leap seconds which are not included in the time in SSC and Trajectories, which is TDC?

You will need to use a record of when leap-seconds were added to UTC, which is determined by the variations in the Earth's rotation. The addition of leap seconds is not easily predicted, but totals about 2 seconds every 3 years, exactly what you are describing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

[Johaen]

I may have possibly found a bug in pre3. When using the eclipse finder option, I'm unable to choose a solar or lunar eclipse from the dropdown. It looks like this:



Changing the list of planets dropdown to a different planet has no effect on the solar/lunar eclipse dropdown.

I do not have this error in 1.4.1.

[selden]

The problem seems to have been fixed already.
Here's what it looks like using current cvs code.
Note the difference in how the eclipse type is selected.


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[danielj]

There is still a serious problem in Celestia 1.5.0 pre3.
Look:
http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... ht1by4.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... dupgg5.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... itivz5.jpg

In this last image,the peebles are FLOATING and there a lot of sobreposition of textures...