On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Jose Manuel de los Reyes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I'm looking for information related to Stellarium software databases. I'm > doing my PhD about animal migration and behavior, and one of the main aims > of my thesis is to analize the relation between animal behavior and the moon > phases, and even more, the angle of the moon above the horizon. These > "parameters" can be visualized into Stellarium, but I don't know about the > possibility of "export" this data to integrate in an analitical software > (Geographical Information System or statistical package).
No, there's no such possibility. Unless you find someone willing to do a lot of programming. > We have > information of moving animals during migration for at least one year, and > the waypoints could be intersected with the corresponding sun/moon > information. I know the existence of moonphase (but not the angle of the > moon) databases availables in the internet, but the potential of Stellarium > for me is the geographic perspective (the angle of the moon above the > horizon at each geographic coordenate of the Earth). However, I'm not an > expert on the subject so I don't know in which way the Stellarium database > is organized. > > So in this context, I was wondering if it is possible to get these data or > database, or to extract this information directly by using the software in > an automatic way. Positions of the Solar System objects are calculated in real time using standard mathematical models and/or ephemerides. As far as I know, there is no easy way to tabulate this data in a numerical format - it is optimized for rendering the bodies on the screen. I suggest using a dedicated celestial mechanics library, such as NOVA: http://libnova.sourceforge.net/ It is written in C/C++, though, and it is somewhat hard to use. There's also the "ephem" Python module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ephem/ Python has the advantage of being a higher level language than C/C++, which means that programs are simpler to write. Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
