Question How do you create a planetary system in orbiter?

[ex-orbinaut]

It is possible, if the second star is modeled as a planet.

Actualy, idea is to create binary star system (or even pulsar or something). In that situation these two stars wil be relativly close to each other and mutaly orbiting.

Question for anyone who knows.

Could something along these lines be accomplished using in some way the Barycentre functions of CELBODY API?

Just curious...

 

[Graham2001]

It is possible, if the second star is modeled as a planet.

This means, however, that "planets" orbiting the second star will in fact be moons, and thus will not be able to have moons of their own.

After seeing this I thought I'd give it a quick try to see what results I'd get. I've hit a mathematical problem thought.

How do you 'unpack' 3.22e-01 for use in a calculator? I know that the decimal point moves to the right with an e+XX after the number, so e-XX should move the decimal point to the left, but how far?

 

[dbeachy1]

1 place, as indicated by e-01. So 3.22e-01 is 0.322.

 

[Graham2001]

1 place, as indicated by e-01. So 3.22e-01 is 0.322.

Thank you for clearing that up. I'm still trying to figure out how to get a stars increased/decreased size to display in Orbiter.