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Re: Book Information
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2001 Aug 13, 3:09 PM
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2001 Aug 13, 3:09 PM
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? > >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@home.com ================ 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 ------------------------------ george@huxtable.u-net.com George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222. ------------------------------
