High Precession Rates lead to bad orbit projection
Posted: 01.02.2005, 09:11
High Precession Rates for planets lead to bad orbit projection of moon/satellite
This is a possible bug.
For moons/satellites that are orbiting Planets with high Precession Rate, the orbits fail to display properly. Instead of orbit also adjusting for the Precession Rate, the orbit defaults to J2000 and stays like that. This creates a odd situation where the moon/satellite is in an orbit 90 degrees to the projected one.
Use the Following example to illustrate
This is a possible bug.
For moons/satellites that are orbiting Planets with high Precession Rate, the orbits fail to display properly. Instead of orbit also adjusting for the Precession Rate, the orbit defaults to J2000 and stays like that. This creates a odd situation where the moon/satellite is in an orbit 90 degrees to the projected one.
Use the Following example to illustrate
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"Gigus" "Rylix"
{
Texture "gigus.png"
NightTexture "gigus_night.png"
SpecularColor [ 0.6 0.6 0.4 ]
SpecularPower 35.0
HazeColor [ 0.6 0.6 0 ]
HazeDensity 0.3
Radius 78641
Oblateness 0.1034
Albedo 0.51
RotationPeriod 7.8
Obliquity 91.1
EquatorAscendingNode 304.404
PrecessionRate 0.05364186 #degrees/day = 360/(Period*6711.1770)
EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 18.3868
SemiMajorAxis 7.401
Eccentricity 0.0484
Inclination 3.1252
AscendingNode 100.556
LongOfPericenter 14.7539
MeanLongitude 34.404
}
Rings
{
Inner 157810
Outer 183210
Texture "gigus_rings.png"
}
}
##### S/2113 G14 #####
"S/2113 G14" "Rylix/Gigus"
{
Texture "default.*"
Albedo 0.50
Radius 22.50
Mass 2.44E+17
Density 5.12
# RotationPeriod 0.00
# Obliquity 0.00
EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 0.00060671
SemiMajorAxis 215213.262
Eccentricity 0.104
Inclination 15.13
# AscendingNode -
}
}
