Any way to output orbital parameters in Celestia?

Evil Dr Ganymede · Post #1by **Evil Dr Ganymede** » 12.05.2005, 20:44

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)

Evil Dr Ganymede · Post #2by **Evil Dr Ganymede** » 13.05.2005, 19:47

anyone?

Post #3by **selden** » 13.05.2005, 22:01

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.

Evil Dr Ganymede · Post #4by **Evil Dr Ganymede** » 13.05.2005, 22:30

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.