•   over 7 years ago

IDEA 8 - Comet/Active Asteroid variability in survey data in context:

Augment posted comet image data in surveys (ZTF, PTF, WISE, NOAO archives, etc.) with context of orbital positions.

Some hooks for image data:
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/ssois/

How to: Go to your favorite image archive, chose a set of images that show a comet evolving, use Cosmographia to show its orbit context.

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/ssois/

Product(s):
0th order - story- produce an animation of a comet or AA evolving thought its activity and the positions through its orbit

1st order - create a TOOL which allows you to choose an object as input (maybe feeding it to the archive browser solar system search tool) and display a movie and motion through its orbit using Cosmographia.
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/cosmographia.html

You can get ephemerides and orbital elements using JPL's Horizons and input them into Cosmographia.

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi

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