Stellarium

Can't view Earth's orbit

Asked by Zeo

I'm attempting to view Earth's orbit. I know I should be able to view the orbit if I select the planet and have selected "Show Orbit for Selected Planet", but I'm unable to select it by searching for it. When I do, the application simply deselects whatever I selected last. Sometimes, if I have the ground viewable and I zoom out and look at it and click around the middle, I can select the planet. When I do, the orbit does not display. I can select the sun to show all planetary orbits, but can't tell which (if any) of the displayed orbits is for Earth; none appear to pass through my point.

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Zeo (zeocohen) said : 		#1

Also note, current viewing location is a point on Earth (Los Angeles)

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Best gzotti (georg-zotti) said : 		#2

Orbit for the planet you are standing on is not displayed by design. (And we are actually stuck in discussion whether selecting Earth when standing on Earth makes sense.)

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Zeo (zeocohen) said : 		#3

Hah! Okay, I'll view from elsewhere, thanks. (For whatever it's worth, as a user I'm on the side of it making more sense to display info for objects regardless of viewing location, if only because that's one less not-necessarily-intuitive behavior of the program for the user to learn.)

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Zeo (zeocohen) said : 		#4

Thanks gzotti, that solved my question.