Stellarium

Disable nebula name display; restore previous

Asked by Stephen Tonkin

Stellarium 0.10.4
Ubuntu Linux 10.04

I am trying to develop full-sky charts for my location. Initial FoV is set to 195*

I wish to be able to show the nebula circles, but disable the name display. I have tried the following in config.ini:

flag_nebula = true
flag_nebula_name = false
flag_nebula_long_name = false

However, nebula names (many of them long - eg "Great Nebula in Andromeda" still appear and, irritatingly, "Double Cluster" appears next to both NGC 869 and 864, so it appears as a double image; "NGC 1981" overlaps "Great Nebula in Orion" and the screen generally looks cluttered.

Secondly, when I start up, I would like to *automatically"go back to the configuration when I last closed Stellarium. I know I can do this by "Save Settings", but is there a "previous" or similar option for startup_time_mode? Also the "Save Settings" doesn't save it in paused mode.

Thanks in advance,

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Best Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#1

As far as I could read the code, "flag_nebula_name" controls both the hints (the circles) and the labels (the names). I'm not sure is this is the way it was originally, or it is a result of the recent nebula symbols patch. So no, there's no way to switch off the names and leave only the symbols, unless another flag is introduced.

No, there is no way to save automatically the time on exit. You can achieve something similar by selecting "Other" and clicking on the "use current" button every time you exit Stellarium. (It's in the Configuration window->Navigation->Startup date and time.)

> Also the "Save Settings" doesn't save it in paused mode.
Do you mean that "Save settings" doesn't save the fact that the time is paused?

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Stephen Tonkin (mb23) said : 		#2

re Nebula labels: Not the answer I was hoping for :-) , but at least I know what is and isn't possible now and can proceed accordingly. Thanks!

re Time save on exit -- yup, I can do that, but I won't always remember; it would have been nice to have had an "automagic" setting for it.

re paused mode: Yes, you understood correctly.

Thank you for your help.

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Stephen Tonkin (mb23) said : 		#3

Thanks Bogdan Marinov, that solved my question.