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Subject: Re: Book Information
From: George Huxtable (george@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 17:09:00 EDT
John Kabel wrote-
>I am resending this post because I got an error message back from the
>Nav-L server. Please excuse me if you get a duplicate.
>
>JJK
>
>Aubrey O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> A few months the title of a book containing many astronomical equations
>> suitable for programing calculators was listed.
>> I cannot find this email... can somebody repost or give me the title.
>> Thanks,
>> Aubrey.
>
>John Kabel replies:
>
>Were you thinking of the following?
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>Meeus, Jean. Atronomical Algorithms. Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond,
>VA, 1991.
>
>This has a large number of equations and algorithms for estimating
>astronomical phenomena.
>
>John Kabel
>London, Ontario, Canada
>jjkabel@XXX.XXX
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Error message or not, I for one received his posting correctly. And I agree
about Meeus. A real goldmine of a book. Perhaps John Kabel does Meeus a
small injustice when he suggests that his book is for "estimating
astronomical phenomena", though. I have used the many detailed terms of
his trig expansions to calculate Sun, Moon, planet, star positions to a
fraction of a minute of arc, on a programmable pocket calculator. Rather
better than estimation, in my view.
George Huxtable
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George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222.
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