Crud, I lost Pluto-Charon's orbit around the Sun.

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Crud, I lost Pluto-Charon's orbit around the Sun.

Post #1by Clorox » 12.12.2006, 22:59

I have Celestia v. 1.5.0, I was tampering with the code to "fix" some things, and I lost P-C's orbit somehow. Can someone help me?

Also, if this helps:

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ReferencePoint "Pluto-Charon" "Sol"
{
    CustomOrbit "pluto"
}

"Pluto" "Sol"
{
    Texture "pluto-lok.*"
    SpecularTexture "pluto-lok-spec.*"
    SpecularColor            [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
    SpecularPower             9.5

    Radius 1151

    OrbitFrame {
        EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Pluto-Charon" }
    }

    BodyFrame {
        EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Pluto-Charon" }
    }

    EllipticalOrbit
    {
        Period           6.387246
        SemiMajorAxis    2411      # mass ratio of 0.123
        Eccentricity     0.0002
        Inclination      115.602
        AscendingNode    228.328
        ArgOfPericenter  47.314
        MeanAnomaly      93.440
    }

    RotationPeriod       153.293904
    Obliquity            115.60
    EquatorAscendingNode 228.34
    RotationOffset       320.75
   
    Albedo           0.55
}

AltSurface "limit of knowledge" "Sol/Pluto"
{
    Texture "pluto-lok.*"
    SpecularTexture "pluto-lok-spec.*"
    SpecularColor            [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
    SpecularPower             9.5
}

"Charon" "Sol/Pluto"
{
    Texture "charon-lok.*"
    SpecularTexture "charon-lok-spec.*"
    SpecularColor            [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
    SpecularPower             9.5
    Radius   593

    InfoURL "http://www.nineplanets.org/pluto.html#Charon"

    OrbitFrame {
        EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Pluto-Charon" }
    }

    BodyFrame {
        EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Pluto-Charon" }
    }

    EllipticalOrbit
    {
        Period          6.387246
        SemiMajorAxis   17188   # mass ratio of 0.123
        Eccentricity    0.0002
        Inclination     115.602
        AscendingNode   228.328
        ArgOfPericenter 227.314
        MeanAnomaly     93.440
    }

    RotationPeriod       153.293904
    Obliquity            115.9
    EquatorAscendingNode 227.3
    RotationOffset       140.4
   
    Albedo               0.35
}

AltSurface "limit of knowledge" "Sol/Pluto/Charon"
{
   Texture "charon-lok.*"
        SpecularTexture "charon-lok-spec.*"
        SpecularColor            [ 0.135 0.12 0.08 ]
        SpecularPower             9.5
}
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Post #2by selden » 12.12.2006, 23:19

Often when a planet or other body disappears, the error is in a previous entry. Did you modify the orbit of one of Neptune's moons, for example? Perhaps accidentally delete the } at the end of Nereid's definition right above the definition of Pluto-Charon?
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Post #3by chris » 13.12.2006, 00:11

The problem is that Celestia doesn't show orbits for reference points.

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Post #4by Clorox » 13.12.2006, 21:37

That makes more sense. Thanks, Chris.
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