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Saving orbital elements in MPC format?

Open void4 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Pressing S on the orbital elements+observations screen saves the orbital elements in this format:

Orbital elements:  DRS044
   Perihelion 2022 Oct 20.35345 +/- 535 TT =  8:28:57 (JD 2459872.85345)
Epoch 2023 Jul 14.0 TT = JDT 2460139.5   Ju: 0.4692              Find_Orb
M   8.47557165 +/- 60               (J2000 ecliptic)
n   0.03178579 +/- 0.0885           Peri.   93.43502 +/- 110
a   9.86992906 +/- 18.3             Node   122.98057 +/- 3.0
e   0.8012000 +/- 0.246             Incl.   15.61214 +/- 39
P  31.01                   H 17.33  G  0.15   U 11.1  SR
q 1.96214092 +/- 1.38    Q 17.7777171 +/- 48.7
From 3 observations 2023 July 14 (98.8 min); mean residual 0".02
# State vector (heliocentric equatorial J2000):
#   +1.795930046554  -2.595361725065  -1.115701474350 AU
#  +11.779052930229  -0.061550516807  -2.839454952611 mAU/day
# MOIDs: Me  1.537060 Ve  1.270006 Ea  1.028439 Ma  0.584696
# MOIDs: Ju  0.469205 Sa  1.499598 Ur  5.325759 Ne 13.249515
# 1 oppositions
# Elements written: 15 Jul 2023  3:49:48 (JD 2460140.659590)
# Full range of obs: 2023 July 14 (98.8 min) (3 observations)
# Find_Orb ver: 2023 Jun 08
# Perturbers: 00000001 ;  JPL DE-421
# Tisserand relative to Jupiter: 2.11468
# Diameter 1403.6 meters (assuming 10% albedo)
# Score: 0.406810
#  $Name=DRS044  $Ty=2022  $Tm=10  $Td=20.353447  $MA=8.47557
#  $ecc=0.8012001  $Eqnx=2000.
#  $a=9.8699291  $Peri=93.43503  $Node=122.98057  $Incl=15.61215
#  $EpJD=2460139.500  $q=1.962141  $T=2459872.853448  $H=17.3
# Sigmas avail: 3

Is it/would it be possible to save this information in the one-line MPC orbit format instead?

A use case for this would be being able to import these orbits into Stellarium via its Solar System Editor plugin:

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void4 avatar Jul 15 '23 04:07 void4

@void4 The orbital elements from the fit are available in the mpc_fmt.txt file in the .find_orb directory in your home directory

talister avatar Aug 16 '23 23:08 talister