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Plantary Orbit Integrator

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Ross Bannister, January 2001
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Find out where the solar system bodies are in the sky for your chosen location and time. Completing this form will instruct our computer to solve Kepler's equation for your chosen planet(s) and tell you where you should look or point your telescope relative to your local horizon.

The Kepler integrator uses the data from this link (copied from the JPL web site)

1. Select the object(s) that you wish to observe

Sun Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

2. State your location on Earth

Specify place name or ...	... specify long\lat co-ordinates
ReadingUK SwindonUK GodalmingUK	Longitude: deg. min. East West Latitude: deg. min. North South

3. Sate the date and time you wish to make the observation

Date: year month January February March April May June July August September October November December day

Time: hour min. system GMT BST

4. Sate the calculation interval (this allows output for a sequence of times)

Compute every: years, months, days, hours & minutes

Stop after: intervals (max 16)

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