Comets/Meteor showers/shooting Stars

[endguy14]

just some nice visualization effects that would be cool to see happen in the Sky!

[Abastro]

Comets would be hard, but other two features would be implemented.

[Sunconure11]

Just do short-period comets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet#Short_period

[Abastro]

Still, that one is hard..

[Sunconure11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke

Even with comets with as short of orbits as this one?

[Abastro]

Thise comets have another type of orbit due to high eccentricity.

[endguy14]

I remember that there was a mod called night sky+ that added comets I think. I understand they might be hard. The mod dynamic surroundings has the auroa Boreils, so maybe if you talked to Ore cruncher, the mod developer. There might be a way to add comets based off the way he added the auroas

[PitchBright]

Comets are actual orbiting bodies, with predictable and calculable paths, not random occurrences or events. If Abastro decides to add them he will do it in a way that is scientifically accurate, and not just "effects".

[endguy14]

Ok that's still good. I think comets would be awesome no Matter how there implemented

[PitchBright]

Are you sure you're not thinking "Meteorites"? A comet would appear as a tiny smudge on the sky, that really wouldn't move that much over the course of a few hundred days.

[endguy14]

Maybe I was. But I think comets would still be interesting

[Dulciphi]

apologies for popping this here but I didn't want to make a new issue and it is related.
I'd really like to add satellites. I can see from the existing Json files that I could add my own celestial objects, but the examples all seem to be for so-called fixed stars. I definitely don't need eccentricity for this (perihelion and aphelion would be hard, rendering it would be even harder, and you just know someone's going to say "Can I make them impact a planet?" xD). But satellites may already be possible. Is there a field (or fields) for orbital motion?