View Single Post
  #1  
Old 25-01-2010, 11:19 AM
trent_julie's Avatar
trent_julie
Registered User

trent_julie is offline
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Canberra
Posts: 581
Stellarium comets

Hi all,

I am using Stellarium Version 0.10.2 and I have put together this comet file for myself for use with stellarium, I found it pretty easy to do to be honest, but i thought I could save you the effort this once.
I intend to use Stellarium to drive my 16inch Lightbridge via my Argo Navis,

I identified the comets of interest for the week with this web site;
http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/20100116s.html

The data comes from NASA JPL HORIZONS Web interface;
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi

The data is then processed by this website;
http://projects.familie-steinel.de/s...ium-comet-jpl/

Then this information is copy and pasted onto the end of this file after all the text;
ssystem.ini

Which for me is located here;
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\data

And the full instructions for this process can be found here;
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/JPL_HORIZONS

I have also written a little script that will bring any RA and Dec coordinate to the center of the Stellarium screen if anyone is interested i will also post it

Cheers,

Trent
Attached Files
File Type: txt cometstellariumJPL.txt (3.9 KB, 60 views)
Reply With Quote