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- From: ao@elixir.e.kth.se (Anders Ohlsson)
- Subject: Re: Times for sundown (and a couple of extra questions...)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.104448.17509@kth.se>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:44:48 GMT
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- In article <CPLS13-180892134855@145.1.92.160> CPLS13@email.mot.com (Steven_Cohn) writes:
- >Does anybody know where i can find a program/algorithm to calculate
- >when sunrise and sundown is given latitude and longitude? (sorry if this is
- >an FAQ - I have never browsed this group before). I would appreciate if
- >you could either post it here, or email it to me, as I don't have ftp
- >access.
-
- An excellent book is "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus,
- 1991. ISBN 0-943396-35-2. Published by Willman-Bell, Inc.
-
- I have implemented the algorithms in the book and they give
- accurate results down to the minute if not better.
-
- I could post the source code when it's finished and polished
- (in a few weeks) if there's sufficient interrest or I could
- e-mail it to those who are interrested. BTW, it's implemented
- in Turbo Pascal 5.0.
-
-
- And now for my questions:
-
- 1. The algorithms in Meeus' book don't seem to work at extreme
- northern/southern points for certain days. I'm thinking of
- those days when the Sun rises in May and never sets until
- July. For these instants I sometimes get a bogus sunset or
- sunrise, when there actually isn't any. Am I doing some-
- thing wrong? BTW, Astronomy Lab 1.08 also gives bogus
- results for these points (not the same though)...
-
- 2. The algorithms for Earth in perihelion an aphelion in
- chapter 37 of Meeus' book gives a mean error of 3 hours.
- Where can I find algorithms that are better? I don't
- know French, so I cannot read Meeus' references...
-
- 3. Can the VSOP87 theory or later be found in written form
- in any articles or books around? I don't need accuracy
- of 0.001 seconds, 1-30 seconds is enough...
-
-
- I'm planning to add Sun/Moon rises/sets, equinoxes &
- solstices, perihelion & aphelion, perigee & apogee and other
- stuff to my calendar program YACPU. Version 1.1 is available
- via ftp at simtel20.army.mil as PD1:<MSDOS.LASER>YACPU11.ZIP
- for those who are interrested. Version 1.1 "only" prints the
- phases of the moon.
-
- YACPU prints six-monthly, monthly and weekly calendars on
- an HP LaserJet III.
-
- Many thanks in advance,
-
- Anders Ohlsson
-
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