Traveling to a J2000 Position

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Traveling to a J2000 Position

Post #1by Interlunar » 11.09.2022, 18:29

I apologize in advance if the answer to this is obvious, I'm new to Celestia (and programming). I did look over the documentation and example scripts, but I couldn't find a functioning solution.

If I have a set of specific J2000 xyz coordinates, for example:

X position = -847240.652083542
Y position = 1198210.4520832503
Z position = 394340.61068604764

How can I travel/"go to" that point?

Many thanks.

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Post #2by onetwothree » 12.09.2022, 06:58

observer::gotolocation() - this function should help you.

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Post #3by Interlunar » 14.09.2022, 17:20

observer::gotolocation() - this function should help you.

Thank you for the help. That function seems to be heading in the right direction, but I'll admit I was not able to make it work with J2000.
I'm wondering if it might be possible to go to the J2000 position by listing it in a spacecraft .xyzv file, I'll give that a try also.

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Post #4by EarthMoon » 17.09.2022, 07:30

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