alex

could this be comparable to comet orbits?

Here is another input: compute deep space probe flares. > Apparently, on Aug. 26, the UAE mission "Al-Amal" was detected at .078 AU by the Catalina Sky Survey and initially...

The plugin could also use the JPL Horizons Ephemeris service to retrieve probe positions, but it doesn't look very API friendly (telnet??) So an option might be to require the...

the antipodal circumpolar circle might be indirectly involved in this issue but is applicable for the selected date, and is **centred on the NCP** (which is the centre of the...

Note that if items can be made "inactive", they could also be omitted from the Ocular popup (Alt-O),making this menu easier to use?  

> Whereas I understand the intent here, I'm not sure this is something that should ever be added. The majority of users are not going to have huge lists of...

by the way, one inconvenience in separate `ocular.ini` is that it contains settings that are not relevant to specific oculars. the file should be split up in at least two...

(and I'm quite sure there are more users that have to deal with this kind of permutations :-) )

> One of the things I will be doing is completely changing the ini file; how it's structured, and what is in it. ... Perhaps once I've done that, something...

> > It is a very user friendly format > > This is a superficial impression. Having significant whitespace—even line breaks—makes it quite error-prone, more so than Python. Understand, but...