Introduction to RoboOrbits

What is RoboOrbits

RoboOrbits is a Voyager automaton that manages data relating to dynamic targets such as comets, asteroids and small celestial bodies.

They are dynamic targets as their position in the sky in terms of RA and DEC varies considerably over time as they themselves have complex orbits.

RoboOrbits is able to retrieve the list of objects and the data of their orbits directly from the web and automatically feed its databases and make them available to Voyager users.

The user will thus be able to carry out advanced searches of the data and obtain the position of the object in zero time starting from the stored orbital data.

The databases can be updated at any time, the operation will be more or less long depending on the type of object.

Currently the types of managed objects are Comets and Asteroids.

In addition to performing searches, RoboOrbits has been integrated into Voyager sequences, so it is possible to establish dynamic targets by omitting the coordinates RA/DEC and make the sequence calculate them during execution thus always obtaining the updated position of the object. Actually the sequence with dynamic target allows you to customize the type of pointing of the object in terms of updating frequency of the position in the sky according to the user's needs

(for example researcher user or astrophotographer user etc)

Important Note! Voyager does not ship pre-data RoboOrbits, its installation databases do not contain any object references. The data must be downloaded from the internet and transferred to the dedicated database through some automated procedures whose duration depends on the type of object. The operation can vary from a few seconds to a few tens of minutes depending on the speed of the internet bandwidth and the computing power of the processor

How to use RoboOrbits

You can use RoboClip from whatever place in Voyager modules and applications you will found a button with caption "RoboClip".

Clicking on this button you will open the same windows manager with the same format and the same information shared from the central database also if you are connected in Application Server (RoboTarget or DashBoard environments). You can use in all Voyager Section of Voyager having needed to input a coords, in Sequence editor, in DragScript blocks.

Also data can be imported from Website like [https://telescopius.com/] (CSV or clipboard object list or panels mosaic) or from external Application like Cartes du Ciel , TheSkyX, Astroplanner with a massive import of targets just in a simple click.

Why use RoboOrbotis

Because you can share data across Voyager world , fast and in safety. You can create personalized targets pointing to optimize framing.

You can put a text note to remember useful info about the target. You can cross platform creating your own targets catalog.