Question Mathematical Model of Solar System including all Moons?

[GraeC]

Hi All,

Graeme here with a first post on Space.com.

I'm an old fart who saw the first moon landing stuff on a black and
white TV in grade school.

Decades later I'm here looking for some sort of computational
orrery(sp) that I can query regarding various things like planetary
characteristics as well as satellite trajectories and masses.

Is anything like that publicly available?

 

[COLGeek]

Have you looked at Stellarium, as a starting point?

Stellarium Astronomy Software

Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.

stellarium.org

What are you trying to do with such a tool?

 

[GraeC]

Have you looked at Stellarium, as a starting point?

Stellarium Astronomy Software

Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.

stellarium.org

What are you trying to do with such a tool?

Firstly, thanks for the _very_ prompt reply.

I hadn't heard of Stellarium, but I'll check it out.

I'm curious about possibly finding a location in the solar system
that would have particular types of moons in the sky at some time.
(The precise reasons would sound kooky, but it's my time to waste.)

Regards, Graeme.

 

[COLGeek]

Kooky can be fun. See if it has what you need.

 

[Helio]

A couple of Stellarium tips….
Press F1 to get the list of commands.
Set up your location first.
Ctrl-q to exit

 

[GraeC]

Kooky can be fun. See if it has what you need.

I'll definitely check it out but I have a few other things on my plate right now

Kooky can be fun. See if it has what you need.

I looked at Stellarium's home page and their FAQ.
It doesn't seem to be capable of doing the job.

I'll be less secretive and tell you a little more of my kooky quest.

The data I'm looking for is a particular latitude on some body
which has two or more moons which appear to move westward
in the sky and at least one moon moving eastward.

The latitude I seek was on the terminator at a particular time.

Mars doesn't count because although it has Phobos with an
orbital period less than the planet's rotational period, going
eastward, it only has Deimos going westward, as seen from
the surface of Mars.

Stellarium seems to be Earth-based and that means that its
database probably doesn't have enough detail in it.

See my problem?

Regards, Graeme.

 

[Helio]

Celestia may be helpful for off-world views.

 

[ChrisA]

I'll definitely check it out but I have a few other things on my plate right now

I looked at Stellarium's home page and their FAQ.
It doesn't seem to be capable of doing the job.

I'll be less secretive and tell you a little more of my kooky quest.

The data I'm looking for is a particular latitude on some body
which has two or more moons which appear to move westward
in the sky and at least one moon moving eastward.

The latitude I seek was on the terminator at a particular time.

Mars doesn't count because although it has Phobos with an
orbital period less than the planet's rotational period, going
eastward, it only has Deimos going westward, as seen from
the surface of Mars.

Stellarium seems to be Earth-based and that means that its
database probably doesn't have enough detail in it.

See my problem?

Regards, Graeme.

You want off the shelf, ccomercial software that runs on Windows? Or maybe all you need is a Python orbital mechanics library and you can write the rest yourself? For you use, I think the latter. Here is one.

poliastro - Astrodynamics in Python — poliastro 0.17.0 documentation

docs.poliastro.space