Astronomy on the Personal Computer
By: by Oliver Montenbruck, Thomas Pfleger
Contributors: Pfleger, Thomas
Edition: Fourth, Completely Revised Edition.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783662111871; 9783642034367
Subjects: Astronomy; Physics; Physical geography
Description: Astronomy on the Personal Computer provides the reader with a thorough introduction to the computation of celestial mechanics, which is of particular significance to astronomical observations. Covering everything from astronomical and computational theory to the construction of rapid and accurate applications programs, this book supplies the necessary knowledge and software solutions for determining and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, minor planets and comets, solar eclipses, stellar occultations by the Moon, phases of the Moon and much more. This completely revised edition makes use of the widely implemented programming language C++, and individual applications may be efficiently realized through the use of a powerful module library. The accompanying CD-ROM contains, in addition to the complete, fully documented and commented source codes, the executable programs for use with the Windows 98/2000/XP and LINUX operating systems.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Coordinate Systems; title: Calculation of Rising and Setting Times; title: Cometary Orbits. - Special Perturbations; title: Planetary Orbits; title: Physical Ephemerides of the Planets; title: The Orbit of the Moon; title: Solar Eclipses; title: Stellar Occultations; title: Orbital Determination; title: Astrometry; title: Appendices.