Skip to content

Testing notifications - Do not merge #1

Draft
focanag wants to merge 645 commits into
focanag:masterfrom
Bill-Gray:master
Draft

Testing notifications - Do not merge #1
focanag wants to merge 645 commits into
focanag:masterfrom
Bill-Gray:master

Conversation

@focanag

@focanag focanag commented Jan 12, 2024

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Owner

No description provided.

Bill-Gray and others added 30 commits September 20, 2024 13:50
…nd nominal_rv variables in debug builds. In non-debug builds, the optimizer recognizes that those variables will inevitably be set, but debug builds skip that procedure. I also realized that 'computer friendly' (high precision) residuals would overflow the buffer if abs(resid)>=10 arcseconds; the text is now truncated correctly, without producing an error.
…pe, instead of a cryptic array of seven doubles. No effect on the output (yet), but it makes the code more readable and will help in future work.
… now shows that date/time in MJD or JD form.
…b had an off-by-one problem. You'd click on a desired obscode, and get a different one instead.
…lly being used to show designations or whatever happened to be in columns 57-65 of the original MPC report. Now labels said column correctly.
…icentric (or any place on the moon), show earth elongation instead.
The Horizons commentary for this quantity specifies that it is positive
if the observer is above the orbit plane and negative if below.  That
means the quantity must flip sign for a retrograde orbit.  Odd,  but
easy to accommodate.

Man-To Hui pointed out the error,  and also noticed that even after
this fix,  PlAng for C/2024 S1 (Kreutz sungrazer) differs from Horizons
by as much as three degrees.  Still investigating this.
…should be using that, rather than the text version.
…er-digit-digit one. (Saves minor wear and tear on MPC servers.) Also, if 'cospar.txt' isn't found, abort; don't just keep going with a zero rotation rate for the earth or other body.
MPC just published the new position of Z84 with an updated position (improved lat/long and corrected elevation).
Updated rovers and details for Z84 taking advantage of the coordinates update
… data. Better to read said partial line and then ignore it.
…talogue code was given in the input file, and fixed there in 2023... but plenty of old copies of the EFCC18 data are out there; this fix ensures they'll work correctly
…ing SR orbits. Needs some thinking through...
…nt, instead of embedding it. Revised version date.
…nput file. 'splash.txt' can now contain comments (and has a few describing what it does and how to change it).
…een. Scopes were concatenated in pseudo-MPECs when only one telescope was supposed to be displayed.
…r, plus several new and renamed 'official' MPC codes
Bill-Gray and others added 30 commits November 24, 2025 13:12
…lumn single-character band 'j'. I'm assuming Vj = V for our humble purposes. MPC is, I gather, attempting to sort this out.
…. Fortunately, an edge case very rarely triggered... still, it was wrong.
…nds, it is considered a 'dec only' or 'RA only' observation, of the sort commonly made in the 19th century or earlier. The 'unobserved' axis is omitted on-screen.
…retired. The SWFO-L1 spacecraft now has unofficial code (SWF). There are four new terrestrial codes and two with position tweaks. Also updated the version date.
…onfused into considering only one. Also, there are now six spacecraft that might report sungrazer data.
Ensure attempt_extensions() rewrites covar.json for the final best_orbit and final included-observation set.
Sync covar.json after reverting to best orbit
…ack/arcseconds cross-track', or 'normalized', as appropriate.
…orbital elements display was usually converted from ecliptic to equatorial twice for geocentric elements.
We had two functions,  fix_tilde() and fix_home_dir(),  which did almost
exactly the same thing : if a file name began with ~,  it was replaced
with getenv( "HOME").  Further,  both broke if that environment pointer
was NULL (which,  for the server-based 'fo_serve.cgi',  it is).

fix_tilde() is now gone and the code won't segfault.  Also,
fo_serve.cgi now explicitly looks for files in its own directory.
If an ADES RA is,  say,  314.15,  it may mean the RA is good to
0.01 degree.  Or it may be that trailing zeroes were omitted.  The
latter is quite likely,  but you could introduce garbage data if the
data in question was actually truncated/rounded.

'Losing' a digit that way will presumably happen one time in ten.  So
10% of the time,  an observation _may_ not be given its full,  correct
weight in the solution.  I think that's better than introducing the
occasional junk observation;  if I change my mind,  I'll enable the
currently #ifdef-fed out code.
For some reason,  I put the call to planet_rotation_rate() inside a
loop,  instead of computing it once and just using that value.
It worked,  but there's no good reason to do the math three times.
…arth-fixed (ECEF). This is a somewhat weird system in use by artsat people.
…o include only terms after a specified point. It also shows numerically differentiated forces, foc checking the analytically determined ones.
…you have to reload the original observation set to undo this).
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

4 participants