find_orb

Orbit determination from observations

More about Find_Orb (what it does, how to use it, pre-built Windows executables) at

https://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm

This project includes code for building Linux, Windows, and BSD (and possibly OS/X) versions of the interactive Find_Orb orbit determination software, the non-interactive fo software, and the fo_serve.cgi program that underlies the on-line Find_Orb service. (For a lot of purposes, the on-line service or pre-built .EXEs may be all you really need.)

Right now, only the Linux and BSD versions can be built with what's posted here. (You can probably build for OS/X, too, but I've not heard any reports on that recently.) I've not gotten around to documenting the Windows build process yet; I just provide the aforementioned pre-built EXEs. Sadly, the Windows builds require the Microsoft compiler, due to an unfortunate early choice to use MFC.

You can click here for directions on building Find_Orb from the source in this repository..

As is described at the above link, this project depends on three of my other projects :

jpl_eph (code to read JPL ephemerides)
sat_code (code for Earth-orbiting satellite ephemerides)
lunar (basic astronomical ephemeris/time functions)

At some point, I'll probably document the build procedure for Windows, but it does appear that most Windows users just want pre-built executables.

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bc405.cpp		bc405.cpp
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bmouse.cpp		bmouse.cpp
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collide.cpp		collide.cpp
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cssfield.cpp		cssfield.cpp
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details.cpp		details.cpp
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dosfhelp.txt		dosfhelp.txt
efindorb.txt		efindorb.txt
eigen.cpp		eigen.cpp
elem2tle.cpp		elem2tle.cpp
elem_ou2.cpp		elem_ou2.cpp
elem_out.cpp		elem_out.cpp
elem_pop.txt		elem_pop.txt
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example.txt		example.txt
expcalc.cpp		expcalc.cpp
expcalc.h		expcalc.h
ffindorb.txt		ffindorb.txt
find_orb.cpp		find_orb.cpp
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find_orb.ico		find_orb.ico
find_orb.lnk		find_orb.lnk
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findorb.cpp		findorb.cpp
fo.cpp		fo.cpp
fo_serve.cpp		fo_serve.cpp
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frame_he.txt		frame_he.txt
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gauss.cpp		gauss.cpp
generic.cpp		generic.cpp
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geo_max.cpp		geo_max.cpp
geo_pot.cpp		geo_pot.cpp
geo_rect.txt		geo_rect.txt
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monte.h		monte.h
monte0.cpp		monte0.cpp
monte0.h		monte0.h
mpc_area.txt		mpc_area.txt

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