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[UX Issue] Elevation Does Not Work Until 10000m

Hi. 

When using SkySafari 6 Pro I have notice that the horizon seems to be lower than expected in my area. When I use StarryNight Pro Plus 8, if I change the Elevation I notice immediately how the horizon rises, but in SkySafari when I do the same, nothing happens until I get the 10.000 meters above the ocean ( it shows a strange cubic Earth ). To program an observation is quite hard to know if an object is going to be above the horizon or not because I can't set the real elevation or correct it in case it's not accurate enough. Any solution to this?

And yes, I could use StarryNight for this, but I have a local horizon installed in SkySafari that I can't have in StarryNIght, extremely easy to install in SkySafari and not possible right now in StarryNight ( anyway, when it was possible it was really hard to make it work ). And there are features in SkySafari that I like more ( accurate time zone and current time that I don't have in StarryNight, speed as StarryNight is desperately slow lately and I have latest MacBook Pro 16" and many others ) than in StarryNight and viceversa. It would be great if someday both apps combine in just one with the best of both.

Thank you in advanced

Regards

Antonio

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    Keiron Smith Official comment

    DevOps reference: https://starrynight.unfuddle.com/a#/projects/7965/tickets/by_number/679

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    Dean

    I’m seeing this issue as well.
    Until now I’ve never tried changing the elevation setting. But having just now experimented with it, it seems to have no effect on the position of the horizon line until a value of 10,000 meters is entered at which time the displayed horizon line becomes corrupted.

    This problem occurs in iOS as well as macOS.

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    Keiron Smith

    For reference:

     

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    Antonio

    Hi. The issue have been corrected in the latest 6.8.0 but in a way that really does't help at all. Now when you set an elevation higher than 9999 meters, it just ignores it. This is not the way it should work. It should allow us to correct the local elevation and horizon, but nothing of this happens. Setting the elevation it's like doing nothing. Quite tired of this behaviour. Same with latest Starry Night Pro Plus 8 beta, still waiting for the time zone to be corrected. Honestly I think these are my last purchases from Simulation Curriculum. I will move Stellarium or other who takes this bugs and customer request seriously. 

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    Keiron Smith

    Thanks for the feedback, Antonio.  We will look into it.

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