On 23.09.2016 13:59, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
Is there a good free orbital simulator for Linux?
I don't want a game like KSP but a simulation of orbits without much
need for fancy graphics.
I am wondering what the orbit of a ring would be like (EG a Dyson
ring) and whether it's plausible to make such a ring or whether a set
of disconnected sattelites in the same orbit is required.
While this is not what you are looking for xephem can calcualte and show
the orbits of satelites of earth as well as orbital calculations for the
planets. The graphics are not very flash, the program being now
something like 26 years old, but it is designed to be accurate and be
used as a professional tool. The program itself has a wide range of
facilties having both text and graphical displays and can directly
control a telescope.
There's no debian package for it, the program only being freely
downloadable for none comercial use. I have though so far have ha no
difficulty at all in compiling it. I noticed (just) now though there is
a post about compiling it on debian 8. There are more flashy programs
around now but none are so flexible and accurate as xephem.
Lindsay
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