Questions tagged [astronomy]
Questions on the astronomical applications of Mathematica.
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Converting Units [duplicate]
I'm using MMA 12.2. Trying to put together some astronomy pages, but the output of the command below is in miles. I would rather have it in SI units instead.
On my system evaluating ...
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Getting error Solve::units [closed]
I'm trying to solve the following formula for i, given values for all other variables. There are two equations, the first one is a formula to show the transit ...
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Travelling around Jupiter
Since we have soon historical conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn I have prepared code with visualization planet Jupiter and Saturn with moons. This code first been prepared for version 11.3 and with ...
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Quick question about "shifting x axis"
Imagine I have two lists:
x={x1,x2,x3,x4,...}
y={y1,y2,y3,y4,...}
And I want a listplot
ListPlot[Transpose[{x,y}]]
Would do ...
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Fast N-Body Simulation with CUDA [closed]
There is a Mathematica code for 3 body simulation
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2 body orbits around a barycenter
I'm attempting to plot a barycentric orbit of the sun and Jupiter.
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gravitational two body problem for the orbit of the sun and jupiter around their barycenter
This is a simulation of the sun and jupiter orbiting the respective barycenter.
Initial conditions
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N body simulation
I'm trying to solve a 3 body problem consisting of the earth moon and sun.
I'm wanting to show the earth orbiting the sun and the moon orbiting the earth as a result of the gravitational forces.
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Detect sub figures and split (automatically?)
I would like to take a large figure showing a sequence of individual plots and automatically split the into series of images showing the individual sub-plots (to be exported as animated GIF later). ...
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NDSolve Maxsteps Reached Error
I'm trying to solve a system of Equations. The code is commented below, I am mainly conserved with the last few lines, specifically the NDSolve line. No matter what I do to the Maxsteps option, the ...
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Solar Power Calculations
Good Afternoon,
I have calculated the Incident beam radiation for a given locations local sunlight hours.
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StarData, Altitude/Azimuth Anomaly with TimeZones
I am trying to compute lunar parallax using the position of the star Regulus on February 19th of this year. I get different answers depending on how I specify the date.
Here are the particulars:
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Can NDSolve address spherical gravitational collapse?
As far as I know spherical gravitational collapse -of central importance to theoretical physics- is thought to be out of the scope of Wolfram Mathematica.
However there are cases, as in this article,...
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Finding the next total SolarEclipse over a given latitude and longitude?
What is a reasonable way to code the title question in Mathematica? Trying the following gave Polygons over GeoPositions over Lists of pairs, but just digging into these seemed inelegant. Besides, ...
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StarData: proper motion of a star in HelioCoordinates
I am not an astronomer, but am trying to calculate the trajectory of an interstellar space probe, for example to Proxima Centauri. The HelioCoordinates seem appropriate, as typically used within the ...
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