Replies: 2 comments 3 replies
-
I did an experiment a few months ago, adding the following to
This let me switch to "Planet" = "Earth Orbiter", but there's a problem: the Earth often disappears when some part of it gets out of the frame. As for the elevation cap, this isn't going to work, because Stellarium renders a landscape instead of the current planet. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
3 replies
-
best bridge! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
0 replies
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
-
Hi, I'm interested in potentially using Stellarium to simulate taking observations as if from a satellite in LEO around Earth. It seems to have a lot of good features in that regard, but I'm stuck on a few key issues.
Firstly, I've noticed that you can set the observer position to a desired lat,lon,alt relative to the Earth, however, the elevation caps at 200km, and the Earth itself is not visible when I do this (and only becomes so when I move the observer to another body - ie the Moon - and view it from there).
Is there a way to observe from a pose relative to the Earth with Earth model itself still visible? Also, can the elevation cap be altered - I did not see a setting for this in the config file, so I guess it's a hard-coded limit? (either that or I've just missed it)
Alternatively, I have a pre-computed orbital trajectory for a satellite; is there any way to import this into Stellarium somehow, and have the observer/view move along it? This could be as a series of lat,lon,alt positions relative to Earth, or as a TLE set (or equivalent). Perhaps adding a new Earth-orbiting body to Stellarium with the desired orbital parameters, to which I could then attach the observer to?
Any help or advice, even if its just to confirm whether this is or isn't something Stellarium can currently do, would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
All reactions