Wrong import of comet data by ssystem editor
Bug #1358230 reported by
astrohardy
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Stellarium |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Alexander Wolf |
Bug Description
Using Stellarium 0.13.0 (language German), the positions of comets are several degrees off if orbital elements are added by the online search at the MPC. I noted that although the resulting entry in ssystem.ini is
"type=comet"
the orbital elements are asteroidal. Editing ssystem.ini and replacing the asteorid specific entries (mean anomaly, semimajor axis, epoch) by cometary ones (perihelon time, perihelon distance etc) yields correct positions, which shows that the ephemeris routines in Stellarium are ok.
Appears to me that the cometary data by the CBAT are not correctly converted to asteroidal ones (why do that anyway?)
Hartwig Luethen
Related branches
Changed in stellarium: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: plugin solar-system |
Changed in stellarium: | |
milestone: | none → 0.13.1 |
Changed in stellarium: | |
assignee: | nobody → Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) |
Changed in stellarium: | |
milestone: | 0.13.1 → 0.13.2 |
Changed in stellarium: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Can you give some use-cases for testing?