----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Dean <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [skychart-discussion] Comet 81P/Wild - but applies to charting > the path of any single comet in v3 > > Hi John,
> Latest v3 build. Oops, sorry, I missed that detail in your subject line. I hardly have any experience with v3. FWIW, in v2.76 plotting one or more solar system objects (for a single time) is separate from the "simulation" feature. So you select your asteroids and comets first, and then if you want to do a simulation to show the path over some period of time, you set the time increment and # of points, and this is applied to all solar system objects currently plotted (and that includes planets/moons). It sounds like v3 divides solar system objects into categories when doing simulations (eg, maybe you don't want to see the path of Jupiter and its moons when plotting a path for a comet). But maybe you have to select the comet(s) first, just as you would when you're only plotting for a single time, before setting the simulation settings. In other words, there must be a procedure to select one or more asteroid/comets even if you're not doing a simulation, since the program would bog down if it tried to plot all 500,000+ known asteroids, even for a single time! -John > I looked through the code which looks like > that it's all or nothing, but before I start hacking the code I wondered if > there was a combination of settings that a) might have allowed you to do it, > or b) I'd missed somewhere. If anyone else is interested in plotting > single objects I'll submit my changes to the main build, if not I > won't... Cheers Peter -----Original Message----- From: John Mahony Which version of > CdC? -John ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Dean > > OK. I give up. What settings are required to generate a chart of the > path of P81/Wild with a point every 5 days during June-August this > year. > I ask because I can get either no comets or all comets, > and certainly *not* one, just one and only 1. The simulation > form has the option of > choosing 'Comet' but rather unhelpfully fails > to allow you to actually choose > which > > one. Thanks, Peter ------------------------------------ Yahoo! > > Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/join (Yahoo! > > ID required) > href="mailto: > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]">skychart-discussion > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > > ymailto="mailto: > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]" > > > href="mailto: > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]">skychart-disc > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > ymailto="mailto: > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]" > > > href="mailto: > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]">skychart-discu > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups > Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! > Groups Links > > target=_blank > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ > href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/join"; target=_blank > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/"; target=_blank > >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
