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Add orbit fitting#87

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@dahlend dahlend commented Mar 9, 2026

Yes, I am adding orbit fitting, I got bored.

This is a very large change, there are basically 3 major additions with numerous small improvements.

  • Add an Initial Orbit Determination method (IOD) - This will produce a series of plausible orbits for provided orbits. These plausible orbits are terrible, but are enough to allow the actual orbit determination to work.
  • Fitting Orbits - This requires an initial guess (see IOD), and takes a set of observations.
  • MCMC Orbit fitting - Meant for short arcs of observations of new objects, similar to SCOUT.

Along with these major additions comes a lot of new code that is required to implement them.

There is a new tutorial which shows how to do MCMC fitting, and 2 new examples, one for orbit fitting and the other for state transition matrix calculations.

@dahlend dahlend merged commit 44d375c into main Mar 9, 2026
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