kstars <-> orbfit (<-> astrometrica) ?

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Hi Steffen,

I just read on OrbFit and it is a very interesting project. However, I'm
not sure how it fits with KStars? Maybe one scenario is to reduce captured
images from Ekos for comet/asteroid discovery and pass them to OrbFit? I'm
not sure if this is applicable. The problems with the positions
calculations you referred to in the email is largely solved now.

Regards,
Jasem


On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wished to have a bit more time to follow my interest in astronomy. So,
> I thought I should at least follow the music of this mailing list. You
> may have some interest in me as a Debian Developer, just ping me if
> there is something I should address.
>
> Something I came up with myself is the Linux tool OrbFit
> (http://adams.dm.unipi.it/orbfit/). After a bit of a peek in this
> mailing list's archive I found
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kstars-devel/2017-September/006649.html
> which suggests to access a public service for known solar objects. Is
> there a workflow in kstars to also allow predictions for the orbits of
> yet unknown solar objects? If I get this right then this would be more
> of a challenge for asteroid-hunting Astrometrica
> (http://www.astrometrica.at/) on Windows, i.e. with Wine on Linux
> (works!).
>
> I happily offer to package OrbFit for Debian/Ubuntu/... if that helps
> preparing any such development.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steffen <moeller at debian.org>
>
>


-- 
Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
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