Implement orbital precession #2364
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This adds two new parameters for modeling of nodal and apsidal precession:
NodalPeriod
andApsidalPeriod
. The default unit for both is years.Example syntax (orbit data from 16 Cyg Bb):
For the following images, I've set
OrbitPeriodsShown
to 3.0 in celestia.cfg.Nodal precession:

Apsidal precession:

One issue is that the orbit paths look incomplete (this is with fading disabled). I wonder if using some parameter other than period (such as eccentric anomaly) for sampling the orbit would address that.

I'm not sure if the equations used are correct either.