[APBeta] Galaxy position angle

[Erik Fichtner]

Erik Fichtner wrote:
> Paul Rodman wrote:
>> If a catalogue has a defined position angle for a galaxy then it is drawn oriented at that position angle in the FoV. If it doesn't have a position angle defined, it is shown with position angle = 0. It would seem that (a) this causes confusion, and (b) a method of indicating that a galaxy does not have a position angle defined should be introduced. 
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> -1 ?

Heh.. I just realized you meant for display.  (It's been that kind of day)

I suppose I'd expect something like a dashed circle of the size of the semimajor axis to indicate
"it's in here somewhere", as is done for nebulae.


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