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I caught a transit
« on: October 16, 2010, 03:08:19 PM »
yay

super-earth, from a Uranus inside Earth's orbit.

Edit: lol for split-typing (it said "with from")
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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 03:09:14 PM »
Nice catch.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2010, 09:05:14 PM »
Doesn't let us in.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 12:31:07 AM »
try it now

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 09:25:58 AM »
It won't let me do anything.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 09:52:52 AM »
Exactly... It wasn't meant to let you do anything. Only I can change it. I use it to make the RV data. You can see it, but not change it.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 05:04:31 PM »
Fictional system btw

RV data: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgTvxKfJlBKWdFFZSVRMSGNmeTFFWXdkellxSzFrb1E&hl=en&authkey=CNCm9fYB

Did you step through the simulation and record the velocity at each day by hand?

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 05:09:44 PM »
yup... takes a bit. A function could be of use.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2010, 05:12:10 PM »
No promises on when, but I plan to add a way to output data like this automatically.

How would you expect and/or want it to work?

What data would you like to be able to capture?


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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2010, 07:07:55 PM »
I would like some function where you choose what object you want velocity data from, and then be able to choose every when (timestep) you want it to be taken.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 08:12:51 PM »
in a close binary system... I caught a near-full disk opposition.

It'd be interesting to have a "telescope" object, where you could record the light of a star, to get transit data.

Also, I'd still like "Landing" to be able to zoom into the sky so that you could zoom in on an object while still attached to the surface of that planet.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2010, 05:40:14 AM »
Also, I'd still like "Landing" to be able to zoom into the sky so that you could zoom in on an object while still attached to the surface of that planet.
This would be an awesome feature.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2010, 03:10:35 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-_IHFvw3Y - Another transit. a .5 Me Venus across a star. In 3D! Not a true movie, just random Prt Scr mashing. :P

Kinda hard to see.

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2010, 08:45:50 AM »

It'd be interesting to have a "telescope" object, where you could record the light of a star, to get transit data.

Also, I'd still like "Landing" to be able to zoom into the sky so that you could zoom in on an object while still attached to the surface of that planet.

I support both ideas, they are really cool

It would be nice if we could record the camera position as we move through a system (to make a replayable movie)

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Re: I caught a transit
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2010, 10:57:28 AM »
It would be nice if we could record the camera position as we move through a system (to make a replayable movie)
This brings to mind in class we do tableaus sometimes (a frozen scene), then people could walk through it and ask the people who they were and what they are doing.