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Re: star-to-star distances
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Sep 30, 15:15 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Sep 30, 15:15 -0400
On Sep 30, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Brooke Clarke wrote: > >> One way to determine star to star angles is with either Starry Night >> Pro >> or TheSky. > > Are these commercial programs? > (I always prefer shareware when possible:-) > > I am using a script I made myself, on a laptop, > the only disadvantage is > that I have to input the almanach data manually. > (I don't know whether I can generate my own almanach > as Frank Reed did; I am not a professional programmer) > > Jean Meeus' book, "Astronomical Algorithms" should enable you to program almanac data easily in a spreadsheet. George Huxtable and other notables on this list swear by it.
