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Need Help Rendering Picture of Earth with Satellites [message #5636] Thu, 18 January 1996 00:00 Go to next message
Richard D. Hunt is currently offline  Richard D. Hunt
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I am working on a problem of displaying the earth in 3-D and having satellites
orbit it. Has anybody out there seen or done anything like this in IDL?

Rich

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Re: Need Help Rendering Picture of Earth with Satellites [message #5683 is a reply to message #5636] Thu, 25 January 1996 00:00 Go to previous message
Gordon Jolly is currently offline  Gordon Jolly
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Registered: January 1996
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Richard

Try using the shareware xearth program to create a (land/sea) view of the earth
from any desired location in space (complete with correct solar illumiation and
a few random stars). This can produce a gif of a specified size which you can
then read into idl and use a a backdorop for animation or static images. I
started to do something like this a couple of months ago but 5 minutes here and
10 minutes there a week isn't the best way to go about software development.

Good luck and let me see the results if you succed.

Gordon

p.s. I can't remember where the archive site for xearth is but I am sure it's
not to difficult to search for. Once you have it it can easily be spawned
from idl to creat whatever view and illumiation you require.


"Richard D. Hunt" <rdhunt> wrote:
> I am working on a problem of displaying the earth in 3-D and having satellites
> orbit it. Has anybody out there seen or done anything like this in IDL?
>
> Rich


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Re: Need Help Rendering Picture of Earth with Satellites [message #5684 is a reply to message #5636] Thu, 25 January 1996 00:00 Go to previous message
Gordon Jolly is currently offline  Gordon Jolly
Messages: 2
Registered: January 1996
Junior Member
Richard

Try using the shareware xearth program to create a (land/sea) view of the earth
from any desired location in space (complete with correct solar illumiation and
a few random stars). This can produce a gif of a specified size which you can
then read into idl and use a a backdorop for animation or static images. I
started to do something like this a couple of months ago but 5 minutes here and
10 minutes there a week isn't the best way to go about software development.

Good luck and let me see the results if you succed.

Gordon

p.s. I can't remember where the archive site for xearth is but I am sure it's
not to difficult to search for. Once you have it it can easily be spawned
from idl to creat whatever view and illumiation you require.


"Richard D. Hunt" <rdhunt> wrote:
> I am working on a problem of displaying the earth in 3-D and having satellites
> orbit it. Has anybody out there seen or done anything like this in IDL?
>
> Rich


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____________________________________________________________ _______
Dr Gordon W Jolly
Satellite Observing Systems tel : (44) +1483 421213
15 Church Street fax : (44) +1483 428691
Godalming
Surrey GU7 1EL G.Jolly@satobsys.co.uk
United Kingdom http://www.satobsys.co.uk/
____________________________________________________________ _______
### GRAVSAT Satellite Marine Gravity of the Gulf of Mexico ###
### FREE from our web pages ###
____________________________________________________________ _______

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