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PROCEDURE: orrery
PURPOSE:
Plots the orbits of the planets to scale as viewed from the north
ecliptic pole, based on the latest JPL planetary ephemeris. Planet
locations are shown by colored disks at the time(s) provided. If
time is an array, then colored arcs are drawn to show the orbital
positions spanned by the input time array. In this case, colored
disks mark the beginning, middle and end of each arc. Time can
also be input by clicking in a tplot window (see keyword MOVIE).
By default, this routine shows the inner planets (Mercury to Mars).
Use keyword OUTER to show all the planets plus Pluto. In this case,
the inner planets will be crowded together in the center.
This routine was originally designed (long ago in the Great Valley)
to show only Earth and Mars. Some useful Earth-Mars geometry is
calculated and can be shown using LABEL=2. Information includes:
Earth-Sun-Mars angle (amount of solar rotation E -> M)
Sun-Mars-Earth angle (elongation of Earth from Mars)
Sun-Earth-Mars angle (elongation of Mars from Earth)
One-way light time (Mars to Earth, min)
Subsolar latitude on Mars (deg)
Use keyword PLANET to calculate the same geometry for any other
planet.
Optionally returns (keyword EPH) the orbital positions of the
planets plus Pluto for the entire ephemeris time period.
Note: This routine uses long-range predict kernels for Solar Probe
and Solar Orbiter. These kernels use a format that cannot be read
by earlier versions of ICY/SPICE. You may need to update ICY/SPICE
to see the positions of these two spacecraft. Version 1.8.0 is
known to work.
USAGE:
orrery [, time] [,KEYWORD=value, ...]
INPUTS:
time: Show planet positions at this time(s). Valid times
are from 1900-01-05 to 2100-01-01 in any format
accepted by time_double().
If not specified, use the current system time.
KEYWORDS:
NOPLOT: Skip the plot (useful with keyword EPH).
NOBOX: Hide the axis box.
LABEL: Controls the amount of text labels.
0 = no labels
1 = a few labels (default)
2 = all labels (incl. E-M geometry)
PLABEL: Print the name of each planet next to its symbol.
SLABEL: Print the name of each spacecraft next to its symbol.
PLANET: Planet number or name for calculating geometry
with respect to Earth. Numbering starts at 1.
For string input, case-folded minimum matching
is performed.
1 = Mercury, 2 = Venus, ..., 9 = Pluto.
Default = 4 or 'Mars'.
A value of 3 or 'Earth' is invalid.
The plot limits will be set to include this and
all interior planets.
FIXPLANET: Rotate the all planet and satellite positions
about the Z axis so that the specified planet is
fixed at the same longitude. Set this keyword
to a scalar or two-element array:
fix[0] : fixed longitude (0-360 deg)
fix[1] : planet number (1-9); default = 3
Applies only to plotting - does not affect the
returned EPH structure.
SCALE: Scale factor for adjusting the size of the
plot window. Default = 1.
EPH: Named variable to hold structure of planet and
satellite ephemeris data (1900-2100, or as
available).
STEREO: Plot the locations of the STEREO spacecraft,
when available. (The Stereo-B ephemeris has
an error near the beginning of the mission,
associated with a maneuver to place it in the
"behind" orbit. This routine deletes the bad
ephemeris values and interpolates across the
gap.)
Coverage:
Stereo A: 2006-10-26 to 2021-09-28
Stereo B: 2006-10-26 to 2014-09-28
SORB: Plot the location of Solar Orbiter. Includes a
predict ephemeris.
Coverage: 2020-02-10 to 2030-11-20
PSP: Plot the location of Parker Solar Probe. Includes
a predict ephemeris.
Coverage: 2018-08-12 to 2025-08-31
SALL: Plot all of the above spacecraft locations.
RELOAD: Reload the ephemerides. (Does not reinitialize
SPICE -- use cspice_kclear for that.)
SPIRAL: Plot the Parker (Archimedean) spiral of the
solar wind magnetic field. Spiral is shown out
to the orbit of Saturn, where the magnetic field
is nearly tangential to the orbit.
VSW: Solar wind velocity for calculating the spiral.
Default = 400 km/s. (Usually within the range
of 250 to 750 km/s.)
SROT: Solar siderial rotation period in days for
calculating the spiral. Default = 25.38 days
(i.e., Carrington), which gives the typically
observed Parker spiral angle at Earth (47 deg)
for a solar wind velocity of 400 km/s.
MOVIE: Click on an existing tplot window and/or drag the
cursor for a movie effect.
KEEPWIN: Just keep the plot window (don't ask).
WINDOW: Window number for the snapshot window. This is a number
from 0 to 31 (same range as WINDOW command). Any value
outside this range will invoke the FREE keyword.
MONITOR: Put snapshot windows in this monitor. Monitors are numbered
from 0 to N-1, where N is the number of monitors recognized
by the operating system. See putwin.pro for details.
PNG: Set this to the full filename (including path) of a png.
No snapshot window is created. All graphics output is
written to the png file instead. MOVIE = 0 is enforced.
OUTER: Plot the outer planets. The inner planets will
be crowded together in the center. Pluto's orbit
is incomplete over the 1900-2100 ephemeris range.
XYRANGE: Plot range in X and Y (AU). Overrides default.
If one value is supplied, plot range is -XYRANGE
to +XYRANGE. If two or more values are supplied,
then plot range is min(XYRANGE) to max(XYRANGE).
If set, then all planets within the plot window
are shown, and the Archimedean spiral (if set)
extends out to the orbit of Saturn.
TPLOT: Create Earth-PLANET geometry and spacecraft position
tplot variables.
VARNAMES: Standard set of tplot variables to plot.
VERBOSE: Controls verbosity of file_retrieve.
Default = 0 (no output). Try a value > 2 to see
more messages; > 4 for lots of messages.
FULL: Show everything: planets, all spacecraft, Parker
spiral, and all labels.
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CREATED BY: David L. Mitchell
(See general/spice/orrery.pro)
PROCEDURE: orrery_options
PURPOSE:
Stores a structure of ORRERY keyword options and provides a
mechanism for changing those options. Keywords set by this
routine are persistent defaults. They can be overridden by
explicitly setting keywords in ORRERY.
Call this routine from your idl_startup.pro to customize default
options for yourself.
USAGE:
orrery_options, key
INPUTS:
key: Structure containing keyword(s) for ORRERY.
Unrecognized keywords are simply ignored.
{KEYWORD: value, KEYWORD: value, ...}
KEYWORDS:
GET: Set this to a named variable to return the current
default keyword structure (after changes, if any).
REPLACE: If this keyword is set, then the input structure
replaces any existing structure. Otherwise, the
input structure is merged with any existing one.
DELETE: An array of tag names to delete from the default
keyword structure.
RESET: Reset the default structure to something universally
benign: {SCALE: 1.}
LIST: List the current keyword default structure. This is
the default when this routine is called without any
inputs or keywords.
SILENT: Suppresses output.
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(See general/spice/orrery_options.pro)
Function: qderiv gets derivative of quaternion - assumes sign ambiguity has been fixed Purpose: ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-16 13:14:07 -0700 (Thu, 16 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27244 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/qderiv.pro $
(See general/spice/qderiv.pro)
Function: q_angular_velocity av = q_angular_velocity(t,q) Purpose: Computer angular velocity of a rotation quaternion Reference: http://www.euclideanspace.com/physics/kinematics/angularvelocity/QuaternionDifferentiation2.pdf Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-16 13:14:07 -0700 (Thu, 16 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27244 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/q_angular_velocity.pro $
(See general/spice/q_angular_velocity.pro)
Function: spice_body_att Purpose: retrieve the rotation (array or quaternion) to transfer from one frame to another frame This routine is is basically a wroapper for the routine cspice_pxform. cspice_pxform can fail if there are time intervals missing from the kernels. This routine can check for those missing intervals (using the check_objects keyword) and complete the task successfully. Note: time is in the last dimension (not like tplot storage) ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-16 13:19:05 -0700 (Thu, 16 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27248 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_body_att.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_body_att.pro)
Function: SPICE_BODY_POS Purpose: Returns the position of an object relative to an observer. This is a wrapper to the cspice routine: CSPICE_SPKPOS Keywords: check_objects: frame or body name that the routine will check for valid times to prevent crashing. Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: ali $ $LastChangedDate: 2020-08-18 18:37:05 -0700 (Tue, 18 Aug 2020) $ $LastChangedRevision: 29046 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_body_pos.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_body_pos.pro)
Function: SPICE_BODY_POS Purpose: Returns the velocity of an object relative to an observer. This is a wrapper to the cspice routine: CSPICE_SPKEZR Keywords: check_objects: frame or body name that the routine will check for valid times to prevent crashing. Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: ali $ $LastChangedDate: 2020-08-18 18:37:05 -0700 (Tue, 18 Aug 2020) $ $LastChangedRevision: 29046 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_body_vel.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_body_vel.pro)
Program: SPICE_CRIB
Purpose: This crib sheet is currently for testing/demonstration purposes only ;
Usage:
.run spice_crib
Author: Davin Larson
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(See general/spice/spice_crib.pro)
NAME: spice_file_source PURPOSE: Provides a structure that contains information pertinent to the locaton (and downloading) of SPICE data files CALLING SEQUENCE: source=spice_file_source() TYPICAL USAGE: pathname = 'MAVEN/kernels/sclk/MVN_SCLKSCET.?????.tsc'' sclk_kernel = file_retrieve(pathname,_extra = spice_file_source() ,/last_version) INPUT: None required. If default_source is provided then the relevant structure elements are copied and used in the output KEYWORDS: SET : If set, then the values in DEFAULT_SOURCE are made permanent. OUTPUT: Structure: see FILE_RETRIEVE for a description of the elements $LastChangedBy: jimm $ $LastChangedDate: 2017-01-28 13:02:17 -0800 (Sat, 28 Jan 2017) $ $LastChangedRevision: 22686 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_file_source.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_file_source.pro)
program: SPICE_INSTALL Purpose: Installs SPICE dlm and binary object modules. Note: This routine has not been tested on all platforms. (But should be safe) Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-11 00:00:35 -0700 (Sat, 11 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27221 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_install.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_install.pro)
Function: SPICE_BOD2S
Purpose: returns true name (string) of a body given either the CODE or an alias string
usage:
name = spice_bod2s(-202)
name = spice_bod2s('MAVEN_SC_BUS') ; name set to 'MAVEN_SPACECRAFT'
(See general/spice/spice_kernel_info.pro)
Function: spice_kernel_info
Purpose: returns info on all load spice kernels
Keywords:
None
Author: Davin Larson
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(See general/spice/spice_kernel_info.pro)
Function: spice_m2q Purpose: Convert rotation matrix (matrices) to quaternion(s) Note: time is in the last dimension (not like tplot storage) ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-11 00:00:35 -0700 (Sat, 11 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27221 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_m2q.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_m2q.pro)
procedure: spice_position_to_tplot Usage: object= 'Earth' Observer='Sun' spice_postion_to_tplot,object,observer,frame=frame, Purpose: ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: ali $ $LastChangedDate: 2022-03-23 14:00:06 -0700 (Wed, 23 Mar 2022) $ $LastChangedRevision: 30713 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_position_to_tplot.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_position_to_tplot.pro)
Procedure: spice_qrot_to_tplot,from_frame,to_frame Purpose: Obtains a unit (rotation) quaternion that can be used to rotate from one frame to another Purpose: ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: ali $ $LastChangedDate: 2022-03-23 14:00:06 -0700 (Wed, 23 Mar 2022) $ $LastChangedRevision: 30713 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_qrot_to_tplot.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_qrot_to_tplot.pro)
NAME: SPICE_STANDARD_KERNELs
USAGE: files = spice_standard_kernels(/load)
PURPOSE:
Provides fully resolved standard spice kernel filenames. files are downloaded if needed.
NOTE: this routine is in development still.
NAIF specifies a few "standard" files that must typically be loaded in before for any calculations can be performed. These are:
Leap second kernel: (naif????.tls) Contains times of leap seconds. ???? contains the version number and increments by 1 with every new leap second.
PCK kernel: (pck?????.tpc) Contains spin axis and size of most solar system bodies.
SPK kernel: (de???.bsp) Contains ephemeris data for the planets. Mars (499) is NOT included in most recent version!
The file names and locations (and even contents) of these kernels is not standard and will change with each new release.
CALLING SEQUENCE:
files=spice_standard_kernels(/load)
KEYWORDS:
LOAD: Set keyword to retrieve and load file
OUTPUT:
fully qualified kernel filename(s)
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(See general/spice/spice_standard_kernels.pro)
Function: spice_test
Purpose: Tests whether the SPICE (idl/icy) module is installed
Provides installation message if not installed
Keywords:
VERBOSE (see "DPRINT")
Returns: 1 on success; 0 on failure
Example:
if(spice_test() eq 0) then return
Notes:
Should be called in all idl spice wrapper routines
see also:
"SPICE_INSTALL"
"SPICE_STANDARD_KERNELS"
"SPICE_CRIB"
Author: Davin Larson (based on icy_test.pro by Peter S.)
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(See general/spice/spice_test.pro)
Function: Purpose: ; Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: davin-mac $ $LastChangedDate: 2019-05-11 00:00:35 -0700 (Sat, 11 May 2019) $ $LastChangedRevision: 27221 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/spice_valid_times.pro $
(See general/spice/spice_valid_times.pro)
Function: SPICE_VECTOR_ROTATE
Purpose: Rotate a vector from one frame to another frame
Usage: vector_prime = spice_vector_rotate(vector,ut,from_frame,to_frame, check_objects='Frame')
Inputs: VECTOR: 3xN array
UT: N array of unix times
FROM_FRAME: String or id - valid SPICE FRAME
TO_FRAME: string or id - valid SPICE FRAME
Output: VECTOR_PRIME: 3xN array - vector as measured in the TO_FRAME
Note: time is in the last dimension (not like tplot storage)
Author: Davin Larson
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(See general/spice/spice_vector_rotate.pro)
Procedure: SPICE_VECTOR_ROTATE_TPLOT
Purpose: TPLOT wrapper routine for the function SPICE_VECTOR_ROTATE
Usage: SPICE_VECTOR_ROTATE_TPLOT,TPLOTNAME,TO_FRAME
Inputs: TPLOTNAME: string(s) - valid tplot name(s)
TO_FRAME: string or id - valid SPICE FRAME
Output: VECTOR_PRIME: 3xN array - vector as measured in the TO_FRAME
Note: time is in the last dimension (not like tplot storage)
Author: Davin Larson
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(See general/spice/spice_vector_rotate_tplot.pro)
function: time_ephemeris(t) Purpose: conversion between unix time and ephemeris time Usage: et = time_ephemeris(ut) ; Converts from UT (unix/posix time) to ephemeris time Or: ut = time_ephemeris(et,/et2ut) ; Converts from ephemeris time to UT double precision (UNIX time) Warning: this routine is only accurate to about 1 millisecond and does not attempt to reflect GR effects Does NOT require the ICY DLM to be loaded Author: Davin Larson $LastChangedBy: ali $ $LastChangedDate: 2022-01-05 09:19:11 -0800 (Wed, 05 Jan 2022) $ $LastChangedRevision: 30494 $ $URL: svn+ssh://thmsvn@ambrosia.ssl.berkeley.edu/repos/spdsoft/tags/spedas_5_0/general/spice/time_ephemeris.pro $
(See general/spice/time_ephemeris.pro)