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ddahlen ◴[] No.44535954[source]
I'm one of those astronomers! I'm working on my PhD in orbital dynamics.

A lot of people are requesting discretionary time on telescopes trying to get observations in. The orbit will put us on the other side of the sun when 3I is nearest the sun in october, we can see it now and after it comes back out from behind the sun.

Unfortunately, right now the it is in a very crowded star field (IE, its close to the galactic plane, lots of stars in the background).

If you are interested in orbital dynamics, I have an open source rust/python package for accurate orbital calculations of asteroids/comets:

https://github.com/dahlend/kete

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1. antognini ◴[] No.44536538[source]
How does Kete differ from REBOUND? (https://rebound.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
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2. ddahlen ◴[] No.44536647[source]
Different goals, kete is meant to be aimed more toward observers and telescope data processing, all asteroids and comets at once on a laptop. Short term analysis (<100 years) and speed are the priority.