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Is there a way to output - as a text file - the orbital parameters of everything in a system at any given time in Celestia? (or could one be programmed as a script?). i.e. arguments of pericentre, orbital longitude, mean motion, all that jazz...

(i'm guessing you'd have to add some terms to incorporate mass of the objects though)

anyone?

Not that I'm aware of.

Harald might be able to say more definitively, but he seems to be busy with other things right now.

Hm, well I guess the lack of a mass parameter would preclude the calculation of a lot of that stuff.

I was thinking more along the lines of just saying where the planet was at that particular time, the orientation of its orbit, etc.