Re: [Celestia-developers] Three Barycenter usage problems
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From: Selden E B. Jr <se...@le...> - 2004-10-11 15:21:02
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> Selden, Chris: > > Of course, the necessary orbital information may not be > > available for most of them. Grant? Fridger? > I'd guess the data available, reliable and suitable for Celestia will fall > short of 1000 stars, but maybe not by much. > >> How about OrbitBarycenter? > > That sounds fine to me! > Yes. I think it makes sense to maintain simply "Barycenter" when specifying > the object. I've not had a problem with "Barycenter" within the definition, > but I guess it makes sense to have a different name for something doing a > different job. Yup. It's not quite as bad as the confusion between Normal (default) Maps and Normal (vector) Maps, but it'd be nice to avoid it from the beginning. s. |