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Subject: Re: Hi (WAS: RE: ping)
From: Yves Arrouye (yves@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 13:40:17 EST
> When I was developing CelestNav and MG229, I used Jean Meeus
> "Astronomical Algorithms" for the planetary ephemeris, the Nautical
> Almanac itself for most of the sight reduction algorithms (with some
> help from the hardcopy HO229), Bowditch for the geodesy formulas, and
> the program MICA (from the US Naval Observatory) for checking
> ephemeris calculations. Most of those references can be purchased
> from Willman-Bell. Early versions of CelestNav used the PD code
> NOVAS (also from the USNO) to do the star ephemeris, but most of that
> code is gone now.
Hi Hal,
Thanks for your reply. I wasn't aware of all these Palm applications! And I
guess I need to find a better name than Pilot Navigator now... Dang!
I'm in the US, have an emulator, and develop in C with PRC-tools. I won't
comment on doing forms by hand in Emacs. Besides this, it's fun to write. I
am getting familiar with the UI guidelines, and am keeping launch codes and
multisegment for later. I don't have Bowditch yet, but I do have the French
admiralty manuals and I don't see why the formulas would not yield the same
results?
YA
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