egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
<_whitenotifier-b8cd> [Principia] pleroy opened pull request #4235: Add a wrapper, Exact, to indicate that the evaluation of an operation doesn't entail an error - https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/pull/4235
<_whitenotifier-b8cd> [Principia] pleroy opened pull request #4236: Add support for truncating the mantissa of a floating-point value - https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/pull/4236
<queqiao--> <P​im​ie​nt​o> First time doing Molniya orbits with Principia. Is "-0.18 Nodal precession" a reasonable value for a Molniya orbit, or should I try to increase the periapsis to reduce that drift to something lower. Right now my orbit is aprox 200x40k. Thanks. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/480397772248580098/1386461647962374164/image.png?ex=6859ca88&is=68587908&hm=99422b254ce3ac74b81a571074a1aab04698071eeaa5f6c43e4c10ab9e5245d3&
<queqiao--> <e​zs​na​ck​> Molinya has a very specific period of half a sidereal day, are you even in the correct inclination? :v
<queqiao--> <P​im​ie​nt​o> yeah, 63.4, and 11h 57m 58.4s
<queqiao--> <A​l₂​Me​₆> Picture of the trajectory in ECEF? If it is correct the analyser will describe it as semisynchronous
<queqiao--> <P​im​ie​nt​o> I closed the simulation already. But yeah, it was. I just wonder what is a good periapsis to reduce drift, and if -0.18 is a good value, or should I try to reduce it further.
<queqiao--> <G​oF​or​PD​I ​(l​es​s ​dr​ag​=m​or​e ​fa​st​er​)> I think the usual periapsis for a Molniya orbit is about 500-600km?