[net.astro] Planet program

fred@inuxe.UUCP (Fred Mendenhall) (11/19/85)

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	A few months ago their seemed to be interest in sharing
Astromonical software on the net. In particular, their was interest
in programs to define planetary positions. I am in the middle of
working on such a program and have posted it on net.sources. 
While it is incomplete, it does work for finding the Sun, Mercury,
Venus and Mars. It is written in C and runs on a VAX 11/780 -
AT&T Unix system V. You may have to do some hacking to make it fly
on other systems.

	I plan on finishing it for the outer gas giants but they 
are harder to determine and it probably won't be until after the
first of the year until I get to it. Questions, concerns and
CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms should be sent to:

			inuxe!fred