[%# Astro::App::Satpass2 template to render TLE data in a format
appropriate for loading into Celestia planetarium software. To use,
load the TLE data, then do
satpass2> formatter format eg/tle_celestia.tt
or,
satpass2> formatter template tle_celestia <eg/tle_celestia.tt
satpass2> tle -celestia
-%]
[% UNLESS data %]
[%- SET data = sp.tle( arg ) %]
[%- END %]
[%- FOR item IN data -%]
[% CALL item.fixed_width( 0 ) %]
# Keplerian elements for [% item.name %]
# Generated by [% provider %]
# Epoch: [% item.epoch( units = 'zulu' ) %] UT
#
# CAVEAT: This is just a demonstration, and is known (or at least
# strongly suspected) NOT to make Celestia display satellites where they
# actually are. I strongly suspect that the problem is an equivocation
# on the use of epoch, but I can not prove this.
Modify "[% item.name( missing = 'oid' ) %]" "Sol/Earth" {
EllipticalOrbit {
Epoch [% item.epoch( units = 'julian', places = '' ) %]
Period [% item.period( units = 'days', places = '' ) %]
SemiMajorAxis [% item.semimajor( places = '' ) %]
Eccentricity [% item.eccentricity( places = '' ) %]
Inclination [% item.inclination( places = '' ) %]
AscendingNode [% item.ascending_node( units = 'degrees',
places = '' ) %]
ArgOfPericenter [% item.argument_of_perigee( places = '' ) %]
MeanAnomaly [% item.mean_anomaly( places = '' ) %]
}
UniformRotation {
Inclination [% item.inclination( places = '' ) %]
MeridianAngle 90
AscendingNode [% item.ascending_node( units = 'degrees',
places = '' ) %]
}
}
[% END -%]