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- From: murphyg@Software.Mitel.COM (Gary Murphy)
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- Subject: Re: Inverse Ephemeris (time as a function of position) Wanted
- Message-ID: <MURPHYG.92Jul28080134@murphyg.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 12:01:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.190630.15531@cco.caltech.edu>
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- In-reply-to: rmm@ariane.ipac.caltech.edu's message of 27 Jul 92 19:06:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.190630.15531@cco.caltech.edu> rmm@ariane.ipac.caltech.edu (Mike Melnyk) writes:
-
- I am in need of an inverse ephemeris for the sun. That is, I am
- looking for function that returns the time of year, given the position
- of the sun in geocentric ecliptic coordinates and a year of interest
- (e.g., 1994).
-
- This function only need be accurate to 1' from 1994 - 2000.
-
- Yes, yes, I know that I can use a true solar ephemeris (e.g.,
- Van Flandern and Pulkkinen's formulae) to iteratively solve for
- the time of year, but I'd rather not take the time to write and test
- the code if an inverse ephemeris exists.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Mike Melnyk rmm@ipac.caltech.edu
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- JPL/Caltech
-
- Does this imply JPL is investigating Nostradamus? :-)
-
- seriously (before wolf flames me for not being so ;-) ...
-
- Elwood Downey's most excellent (and free) ephem program will do not only
- this, but also return all those composite conjunctions and separations
- which Michel d'Notradame was so fond of (if only he'd had a PC in 1557!)
-
- I don't know where exactly to find them, but an archie server should be
- asked to look for ephem (I think the current version is 4.13) or xephem
- if you can compile for X11/Motif (I can't :-( )
-
- I've posted this in addition to mailing it, just in case NASA and NRAO
- are also looking into Nostradamus' Aug 12, 1999 predictions :-)
-
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