Sigh.. if only Stellarium didn't crash my computer, I'd be a happy man... it's by far the best program out there.
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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
Hi Paulo
I am no expert on this. However the first six items are orbital parameters that are used in the program to calculate the instantanious position of the comet.
lighting = false has something to do with how it is displayed.
albedo is the reflectivity of the object
and orbit_visualization_period is how much of the total orbit is to be displayed.
I just get the orbital parameters as provided and place them in the corresponding field of the program.
The magnitude is calculated mainly from observations and depends on the size of the object, reflectivity, distance, absolute magnitude etc.
Barry
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