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Note: These programs are courtesy of David Eagle at Science Software.
The address for more programs and further information is:
Science Software
7952 W. Quarto Dr
Littleton, Co 80123
(303) 972-4020
-Fred
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Sidereal is a tutorial program which introduces the user to the
relationships between Julian and calendar dates and solar and sidereal
times.
J2000 is a utility program which converts stellar positions,
proper motion, parallax and radial velocity from the
standard epoch B1950 (FK4) to epoch J2000 (FK5). This method
is described on page X of the 1985 edition of the Astronomical Almanac.
Galilean is a tutorial program which determines the position of
the Galilean satellites relative to Jupiter. This program explains
how to construct position diagrams like those found in the Astronomical
Almanac and astronomy magazines.