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Jean Meeus

Autor von Astronomische Algorithmen

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Geburtstag
1928
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Belgium
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Meteorologist

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In the field of celestial calculations, Jean Meeus has enjoyed wide acclaim and respect since long before microcomputers and pocket calculators appeared on the market. When he brought out his astronomical Formulae for Calculators in 1979, it was practically the only book of its genre. It quickly became the "source among sources," even for other writers in the field. Many of them have warmly acknowledged their debt (or should have), citing the unparalleled clarity of his instructions and the rigor of his methods.

and now this Belgian astronomer has outdone himself yet again! Virtually every previous handbook on celestial calculations (including his own earlier work) was forced to rely on formulae for the Sun, Moon, and planets that were developed in the last century-or at least before 1920. The past 10 years, however, have seen a stunning revolution in how the world's major observatories produce their almanacs. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., have perfected powerful new machine methods for modeling the motions and interactions of bodies within the solar system. at the same time in Paris, the Bureau des Longitudes has been a beehive of activity aimed at describing these motions analytically, in the form of explicit equations.

Yet until now the fruits of this exciting work have remained mostly out of reach of ordinary people. The details have existed mainly on reels of magnetic tape in a form comprehensible only to the largest brains, human or electronic. But astronomical algorithms changes all that With his special knack for computations of all sorts, the author has made the essentials of thesemodern techniques available to us all.
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TestLSA | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 17, 2019 |
Indeholder "Some Symbols and Abbreviations", "1. Hints and Tips", "2. Interpolation", "3. Julian Day and Calendar Date", "4. Date of Easter", "5. Ephemeris Time and Universal Time", "6. Geocentric Rectangular Coordinates of an Observer", "7. Sidereal Time at Greenwich", "8. Transformation of Coordinates", "9. Angular Separation", "10. Conjunction Between Two Planets", "11. Bodies in Straight Line", "12. Smallest Circle Containing Three Celestial Bodies", "13. Position Angle of the Moon's Bright Limb", "14. Precession", "15. Nutation", "16. Apparent Place of a Star", "17. Reduction of Ecliptical Elements From One Equinox to Another", "18. Solar Coordinates", "19. Rectangular Coordinates of the Sun", "20. Equinoxes and Solstices", "21. Equation of Time", "22. Equation of Kepler", "23. Elements of the Planetary Orbits", "24. Planets: Principal Perturbations", "25. Elliptic Motion", "26. Parabolic Motion", "27. Planets in Perihelion and Aphelion", "28. Passages Through the Nodes", "29. Correction for Parallax", "30. Position of the Moon", "31. Illuminated Fraction of the Moon's Disk", "32. Phases of the Moon", "33. Eclipses", "34. Illuminated Fraction of the Disk of a Planet", "35. Central Meridian of Jupiter", "36. Positions of the Satellites of Jupiter", "37. Semidiameters of Sun, Moon and Planets", "38. Stellar Magnitudes", "39. Binary Stars", "40. Linear Regression and Correlation", "41. Ephemeris for Physical Observations of the Sun", "42. Rising, Transit and Setting", "43. Heliocentric Position of Pluto".

Forrygende samling af algoritmer til at beregne astronomisk interessante størrelser, fx positioner af planeter. Men der er kommet nyere versioner af bogen og endda en ny bog.
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bnielsen | Dec 11, 2016 |
A book that can be regarded as the reference book on the mathematics of astronomy: calculate everything from planetary orbits, lunar events, even calendrical stuff like the date of Easter. I used this book (and its predecessor) intensively to implement a planetarium software application with which I wanted to re-create the state of the heavens for any moment in time.
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