Questions tagged [astronomy]
Questions on the astronomical applications of Mathematica.
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Processing images from NASA's Juno Jupiter Orbiter
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Can you help me improve what I’ve done to create an enhanced-color picture from an image provided by NASA’s JunoCam? [My work is shown in the penultimate image of Jupiter in this post.]
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InverseFunction's domain is not the range of the function that was inverted
I wrote a function to calculate how long of a period has past when a planet traverses an angle theta from perihelion in an orbit of a given eccentricity.
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How do I pull a multiple pieces of data from a while loop and put into a table
I am wanting to pull multiple pieces of data from a while loop and put it in a list. The example I have added below is a table with inputted data that I found. Im pretty sure the syntax is unrelated ...
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SatelliteData for a hypothetical satellite
SatelliteData appears to have some sort of orbit propagator behind it. It works for existing satellites, but is there any way to use it to predict the orbit of a ...
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Typeset the standard "Moon" symbol
As it says on the tin, I want a way to typeset the astronomical symbol for the moon, which is a crescent. I also want this in such a way that I could integrate it into a button as a label, like the ...
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list of dates for vernal equinox
I'm trying to get a list of dates and times of the vernal equinox for the last 30 years (or some other time interval). I'm flailing about and really have gotten nowhere. When I've tried typing ...
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TrueAnomaly of planet orbit as a function?
It is possible to obtain the true anomaly of a planet this way:
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How to convert astronomical RA and Dec from sexagesimal to degree?
Astronomers use right ascension (RA) and declination (Dec) to refer to the sky coordinates of celestial objects. RA and Dec can take be represented degrees or in sexagesimal (base 60). How can I ...
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Calculating with scientific notation
I want to calculate the gravitational force between the Earth and its Moon using Newton's gravitational formula: (G M1 M2)/d^2 and its appropriate physical units. I'd include the code I wrote for ...
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Lagrangian form of Earth-Sun Kepler blows up NDSolve?
I've looked at this 1-D SE question. That question seems to have difficulties around diverging potential functions, and I don't have that. I've looked at this 2-D 3-body demonstration, but that starts ...
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Plotting orbits of trajectories of bodies sharing the earth's orbit in coordinates centered at the barycenter of the solar system [closed]
I am attempting to try and plot the trajectories of a trio of satellites that are orbiting with the earth-moon system around the solar system's barycenter. Originally, I had the satellites in orbit ...
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Orbit followed by a particle around Schwarzschild Black Hole
The following is a equation which describes various possible orbits of a particle around the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime in general relativity. I want to solve it from ...
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TimeZone Anomaly
I ran into the following situation when I was trying to determine the time of sunrise (using the built-in Sunrise function) for a variable location on a variable ...
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Calculate moonrise
Mathematica has Sunrise[], but no Moonrise[]. But it has MoonPosition[], so I thought it ...
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How to speed up plotting with PlotPoints?
I'm plotting an ellipse 1/(1 - e Cos[x]) with e=0.9 using PolarPlot. Taking $x\in[0,2\pi)$, ...
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