Can World Wide Telescope view satellites?
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dimanche 22 janvier 2012 11:49
I recently saw a video where Microsoft Kinect was combined with WWT. What really facinated me was that he had somehow added satellites and their orbit marked with green sircles. Once I saw it I knew I had to find out how he did this. Unfortunately I didn't figure out how to do it.
And yes, I have read the previous post about the satellites, where the answer was to find TLE files and use them to make a orbita layer over earth.
I found the files (I think) here: http://www.tle.info/data/weather.txt
But I have no idea how to use them. And what am I supposed to do with the files once I have them?
I really hope that you can answer me this question.
Thanks
- Modifié Logichy dimanche 22 janvier 2012 12:29
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dimanche 22 janvier 2012 14:46
Ok, so I figured out how to deal with it. But I still have one question. On the video the lines appear like they're some sort of glowing. They're just not completely green, for instance. How do I apply that effect?
This is how I did it. (Please tell me if I did something wrong etc)
*I found the data
*Saved them as .tle files.
*Opened them in layer manager
*Got the result (without the effect)
If you know how to enable the effect, please let me know
Thanks
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mardi 24 janvier 2012 05:16Propriétaire
Right click on the layer in the layer manager and set the color to green, and the opacity to something less than 100%.
Jonathan
- Marqué comme réponse Logichy vendredi 3 février 2012 15:37
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vendredi 27 janvier 2012 05:49
Thanks Jonathan and Logichy, that worked to get some satellites into WWT for me as well.
Hint: to get an accurate shadow for the eclipse make sure "Planet Size" slider is at Actual.
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vendredi 3 février 2012 15:38Thanks, that helped alot!
- Modifié Logichy vendredi 3 février 2012 15:38
