User talk:12.198.15.124

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[edit] Whois

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  • City: Colorado Springs
  • State: CO
  • OrgID: RURAL-5
  • CIDR: 12.198.14.0/23

[edit] Re: Your recent addition of an external link to Orbital Elements

Hi.

  • I removed yor link. The use of silent tracking software is not courteous. Either do not use tracking software, or put a notice on the page explaining to visitors that they are being tracked and something about the nature of the tracking. I noticed that the tracker is based on Google Analytics. While many may think that this is benign enough, one should not make a blanket assumption about everyone. Be clear about these things.
  • If the tracking matter is resolved, I think the interactive illustration can be improved and should be improved before reposting:
    • Allow users to set the degree of transparency of the planet: perhaps a three level toggle: 100% 50% 0% on opacity. Sometimes the planet obscures the relationships.
    • I noticed that there is a run mode toggled by the space bar, but no simulation runs. (and no code in place) Consider implementing this, with a constant time step that drives true anomaly. Straightforward computation of the position of a satellite at a given time (the Keplerian problem) is difficult, but finding time of flights between two established points on the orbit is simpler. In an unpreturbed orbit, equal time periods means the satellite will sweep out equal areas of the ellipse (Kepler's second law), so you might plot various points on the orbit from successive equal area wedges and set up the simulation that way. A basic orbital mechanics text book will help here. Or leave me a message. This, I think, will give readers a very useful visualization of how orbits work.
    • I would suggest putting more documentation on the page as well.

Thank you for the effort. Take care — Gosgood 12:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)