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Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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Not possible to view ephemerides far back anymore? #2002

Closed Atque closed 2 years ago

Atque commented 2 years ago

I tried visualizing the ephemeris of 2I/Borisov, but quickly found that it is limited to 2017-03-16. I get that the orbit is not accurate past that date, but it would still be interesting to view it through the decades, to see where its origin is (Cassiopeia). See the screenshot below.

stellarium-113

Atque commented 2 years ago

Okay, this "bug" has been covered in #2000. Closing this.

gzotti commented 2 years ago

If you want to risk bad positional data, set orbit_good to a larger number.

Atque commented 2 years ago

@gzotti Ah, of course. That was an easy fix :)