GV Features

• Built with NAIF/SPICE, allowing for accurate positions and geometry for planets, satellites, and spacecraft
• Integration with HD, Tycho-2, and USNO-B1.0 star catalogs, including positions, magnitudes, and stellar types
• Accurate FOVs for remote sensing instruments
• Wireframe images showing position grids and surface lighting
• Albedo and surface composition maps
• Easy generation of both images and movies
• Light-time corrections for all computations
• Lookup of actual spacecraft orientation and pointing from SPICE C-Kernels
• Output of all data in graphical and table format
• Flexible input and output coordinates, including both J2000 celestial and ecliptic systems
• Simple web interface
• Robust and flexible kernel management
• Observations for a single time or a range of times
• Rapid generation of tables of geometric parameters (distance, phase angle, etc.) over a time interval
• Cartesian or spherical projection of sky coordinates.
• Display of Jovian aurora and satellite flux footprints