Bill-Gray / find_orb

Orbit determination from observations
https://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm
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Question/feature request: exporting object state with and at the observations #55

Open void4 opened 2 months ago

void4 commented 2 months ago

When I load an object in find_orb, I can step with the up and down keys through the individual observations and see the state of the object at that particular point in time.

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I'm interested in using find_orb/fo to export the calculated distances to the observer and the sun - Delta and r - to associate them with the actual observed magnitude at the time of the observations. Unfortunately there seems to exist no option to export this data, (with fo: to include it with each observation in total.json). Creating ephemerides with either find_orb or fo only seems to allow a fixed step size and the observations may be spaced very irregularly.

I want to create a chart of observed comet magnitudes vs calculated distances and this would be very useful for that.