The annotations appear in an odd color. Why?
Annotations are created using PHP’s JPEG image creation features. I haven’t found a way to get these to be of a consistent color (there’s supposedly a way to do it, I just haven’t gotten it to work), so I just tell PHP to use “the color closest to white”. 3.3. When using the chart annotation, some of the chart dots look like stars. I’ve considered several ways of avoiding this (changing the dots to “x”s, changing the color of the dots, removing the dots entirely, etc), but haven’t really found a good way around this. If you’re not sure whether you’re seeing a dot or a star, try viewing the raw image. 3.4. Why are the Greek letters abbreviated “improperly” in English, instead of being written in Greek? I’m sure there’s a way to get PHP’s JPEG image creation feature to print out Greek letters, but I haven’t found it yet. As for the improper abbreviations (eg, “alf” for “alpha”), these abbreviations come directly from the star catalog I use. 3.5. How are the stars named? I use the Bayer n
