It's a project I'm working on, the reason for delay is that I'm trying to make it more user friendly. The idea is launching 2 satellites, one to simulate polaris and the other on geostationary orbit directly above the space center. The key vizzy sensor is the "input [pitch]" . So a gyro on free motor aims the chip north, then select satellite (polaris) and locks on it, the chip will read input pitch value (-1 ~ 1), which will be continously fed into a slider that controls the attitude of the chip until the pitch input is zero, that would be the elevation angle aka latitude line. The same goes for longitude but pointing east first and lock on the geostationary satellite. If there was a command line in vizzy to select a target by name, that would have been so damn awesome
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547 TopSecret24.9 years ago
@crowxe Isn’t that a good thing though? If you target the Sun then it would work like the ancient Arabic (namely Islam) method of finding longitude at noon (when the sun is directly above).
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8,458 crowxe4.9 years ago
@Jaime731 unfortunately I can't select targets as crafts, only planets 😭 , this doesn't make any sense. Why not crafts?
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8,458 crowxe4.9 years ago
@Jaime731
I thought I didn't see it but in fact it doesn't exist. You're talking about another game -
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8,458 crowxe+1 4.9 years ago
I already put the 2 satellites in the proper position. And just a clarification, the polaris satellite is a craft that already departed the solar system at 33 km/s with inclination 90
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@TopSecret2 but then I'll only have that information during noon . Anyway, I've built the required constellation sandbox and the device as craft with instructions when it starts. It nicely accurate unless the ground is uneven