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Originally Posted by DavidU
One word. Magnificent.  |
Thanks a lot David.
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Originally Posted by Mighty_oz
Wow that's real nice of u ! Think this one will have to go up on my wall  It's the thing i'd like to do too. this will give me a good guide to aim for.
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No worries Marcus.
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Originally Posted by RobF
Thanks so much again Marc. This is so educational seeing everything in context like this. Next best thing to having a 20" Dob and dark sky ranch for visual cruising while I'm imaging. I just love it all - and hope you'll keep it coming. Still some legends missing on the zoom in images?
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Thanks for the feedback Rob.
Yeah I haven't got legends for all the inserts. I was thinking of having some kind of basic RA/DEC grid on the big map if that's possible to have that as a reference but there woud be some serious distortion. I have most of all the small inserts already platesolved
here so maybe it's best to have the RA/DEC grid in the smaller fields?
I have no idea what would work best in practice. I mean the map and inserts are visually pretty and sort of functional for a basic lookup. Maybe have the RA/DEC info for the center of each insert in a caption next to its title? What do you guys reckon?
Ultimately this will go on line as a flash scrollable map and a white areas will be zoomable areas to the bigger fields which in turn will be platesolved and further zoomable so I have some kind hierarchy happening. Like a multilevel structure that will allow you deeper in the tree only if the field/DSO is available as a child in the database tree. I'll have it database driven so it will be very easy to maintain (or search) and add to as a resource even unrelated overlapping fields. I just need to find a good generic display system, recursive for lack of a better word that will work seamlessly on all levels and display a pretty layout regardless of how deep you search. Doing the main layout flat like this is good prototyping so I can work out spatial arrangement before coding the levels and the whole thing.