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- PLANET(1A) Astronomical Commands PLANET(1A)
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- NAME
- planet -
- provide planetary position and/or rise/set information
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- SYNOPSIS
- planet [-r] [-l] [-v] [-p name] [-t lat]
- [-g long] [-d date] [-e ele] [-T time]
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- DESCRIPTION
- planet provides the times and optionally azimuths of rising
- and setting and/or the equatorial coordinates (corrected for
- parallax) for planet _n_a_m_e (Mercury is the default).
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- One of -l or -r must be specified.
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- OPTIONS
- r: rise / set information
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- l: location - topcentric equatorial (RA-DEC)
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- v: verbose output
- Includes azimuths of rise/set; geocentric coordinates;
- echos time, date and location.
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- e: elevation in meters above sea level
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- T: Universal Time (otherwise current local time) (hhmmss)
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- d: current date (otherwise current local date) (yyyymmdd)
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- g: longitude (decimal)
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- t: latitude (decimal)
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- p: planet name (only first one or two characters are used)
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- ENVIRONMENT
- planet looks for the following special environment vari-
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- LATI - latitude to use (decimal degrees)
- LONG - longitude to use (decimal degrees)
- ELEV - elevation to use (meters above sea level)
- as well as the standard time variable TZ (PST8PDT for the
- west coast of the US).
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- planet will look first at the command line, then the
- environment variables, then defaults to -122.6o longitude,
- 45.45o latitude.
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- AUTHOR
- Rick Coates
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- Coates Libraries Last change: 88-12-23 1
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