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Hi, after trying unsuccessfully to implement a javascript calculator of
North's method for estimating the solar system body lat and long of sunsports, I was wondering if there is any existing software that does this. E.g., put in the physical ephemeris data for the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and the position angle and distance between the disk's center and the feature, what is the body-centric latitude and longitude? Thanks - Canopus56 P.S. - See North's Advanced Amateur Astronomy at pp.262-264 |
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![]() canopus56 wrote: Hi, after trying unsuccessfully to implement a javascript calculator of North's method for estimating the solar system body lat and long of sunsports, I was wondering if there is any existing software that does this. E.g., put in the physical ephemeris data for the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and the position angle and distance between the disk's center and the feature, what is the body-centric latitude and longitude? Thanks - Canopus56 P.S. - See North's Advanced Amateur Astronomy at pp.262-264 Hi Canopus56, I know nothing of code but HNSky (author Han Kleijn) has both RA/Dec and Alt/Az readouts. The code is freely available and the site has many links to astronomy code writers. http://www.hnsky.org/ |
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"John Carruthers" wrote in message
ups.com... [HNSKY] has both RA/Dec and Alt/Az readouts. The code is freely available and the site has many links to astronomy code writers. http://www.hnsky.org/ Sounds like you are talking about the celestial coords and not the planetary lat and long., but thanks for the tip. I'll look at it. - Canopus56 |
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