From: moshier@world.std.com (Stephen L Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce
Subject: aa-53.zip - Astronomical ephemeris calculator, C sources
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:52:00 GMT

I have uploaded to Simtel.Net:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/astronmy/aa-53.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/astronmy/aa-53.zip   160586 bytes

aa-53.zip       Astronomical ephemeris calculator, C sources

C program computes ephemerides of Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and stars
using rigorous reduction algorithms from the Astronomical Almanac and
related sources.  Built-in planetary series have arcsecond precision.
Program reads ASCII file catalogues of stars and orbital elements,
displays all adjustments as it finds local azimuth and elevation, rise
and set times, etc.  Archive contains MSDOS executable and C source code.

Known compatible systems:  MSDOS (Borland C, Microsoft C, DJGCC), Sun
(Solaris, SunOS), Silicon Graphics, Alpha/OSF, VAX (VMS CC), Linux, GNU
GCC.

Changes: Version 5.3 incorporates new trigonometric expansions for
positions of the Moon and planets, adjusted for a best fit to JPL's DE404
ephemeris.  Precision ranges from about 0.1" for the Earth to 1" for
Pluto.  The lunar ephemeris maintains 0.1' precision to 3000 B.C.

Freeware.  Uploaded by the author.

Steve Moshier
moshier@world.std.com