ksconjunct.h

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Akarsh Simha <kstar@bas.org.in>
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
*/
 
#pragma once
#include "approachsolver.h"
 
class GeoLocation;
class KSPlanetBase;
class SkyObject;
 
/**
 * @class KSConjunct
 * @short Implements algorithms to find close conjunctions of planets in a given time range.
 * A class that implements a method to compute close conjunctions between any two solar system
 * objects excluding planetary moons. Given two such objects, this class has implementations of
 * algorithms required to find the time of closest approach in a given range of time.
 *
 * @author Akarsh Simha
 * @version 2.0
 */
class KSConjunct : public ApproachSolver
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
    /** Constructor. Instantiates a KSNumbers for internal computations. */
    KSConjunct();
 
    void setObject1(SkyObject_s &obj) { m_object1 = obj; }
    void setObject2(KSPlanetBase_s &obj) { m_object2 = obj; }
    void setOpposition(bool opposition) { m_opposition = opposition; }
 
signals:
    void madeProgress(int);
 
protected:
    double findInitialStep(long double startJD, long double stopJD) override;
    void updatePositions(long double jd) override;
 
private:
    dms findDistance() override;
 
 
    SkyObject_s m_object1;
    KSPlanetBase_s m_object2;
    bool m_opposition { false };
};