Most of the moons of other planets aren't in synchronous rotation sy

Bug #1240791 reported by ironman
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Stellarium
Fix Released
Medium
qam1

Bug Description

I’ve been a Stellarium user since version 11.0. I have noticed that most of the moons of the other planets aren’t in synchronous rotation or tidal locked to their host planets. Example: If you are standing on the surface of Miranda at 0 deg latitude, and 0 deg longitude. The planet Uranus would appear at your Zenith and wouldn’t move that much throughout its orbit, another word, that only one hemisphere faces the planet and the other hemisphere doesn’t.
The moons so for that I found that aren’t in synchronous rotation.
Ariel, Callisto, Ganymede, Iapetus, Mimus, Miranda, Oberon, Titan, Titania, Triton; and Umbriel. I suspect some of the smaller moons might not be in synchronous rotation as well.

I hope this could be added to the wish list for version 13.0.

Changed in stellarium:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: none → 0.13.0
Changed in stellarium:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Changed in stellarium:
assignee: Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) → nobody
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: 0.13.0 → 0.13.1
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: 0.13.1 → none
Revision history for this message
gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

I started to go through the list:

Io, Ganymede, Callisto: OK

Mimas, OK
Triton: bad period

Seems there was a mess sometimes in harmonizing orbital with rotational period - the latter has to be given in hours!

I will have a further look.

Changed in stellarium:
assignee: nobody → gzotti (georg-zotti)
Revision history for this message
gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

qam1 has solved this, Alex committed patch into r7913

Changed in stellarium:
assignee: gzotti (georg-zotti) → nobody
assignee: nobody → qam1 (qam1)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 0.14.0
Changed in stellarium:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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