Planet coordinatesystem questions.

[Arexack_Heretic]

Ok, I have been messing with placing moons etc for two days now.

I got some remarks/questions.

1) is there a way to determine the coordinates of the planet?
Right now moving moons at random is unsatisfactory.

2) Can the coord system for addMoon/Planet be changed to the psm or spm sceme? That way the planetoids can be placed in the solarplane with considderably greater ease.

3) What determines the station-distance from planet? The planet I'm working with seems terribly close. while the radius is a tiny 2800km.

[aegidian]

1 & 2) Not at the moment, but that looks like a sensible suggestion. I'll code the coordinate stuff to take a scheme of coordinates.

3) The station's at an altitude exactly equal to the planet's radius.

[Arexack_Heretic]

The station's at an altitude exactly equal to the planet's radius.

what? double it I gather. Or it would be a groundbase!

edit: duh, never mind that.

[JensAyton]

Altitude is generally measured from the datum, i.e. the nominal standard surface level. 0 altitude is ground level, 1 r is a tad over ten megametres in the case of Earth. :-)

[Star Gazer]

eerrrmm... ...isn't r ~ 6.4 Mm...? (just being pedantic, but... )

[JensAyton]

Er, yes. Damn diameter, hijacking my headspace.