rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (06/02/83)
I am considering authoring a set of tools (probably in C, to run
on UNIX[tm]) to assist amateur astronomers. It all began with a
program to generate accurate ephemerides for any time and place on
Earth consisting of locations of the sun, moon and planets. This
program is nearly complete but not yet ready for release. The next
thing I thought of adding was a program to take this information as
input and generate a graphic display (for ordinary terminals) of the
positions of these objects and some important stars for, say, 90 degrees
of azimuth above the horizon. I was wondering what other amateur
astronomers think would be useful and desirable as computer tools.
I would appreciate if you would mail to me any suggestions or comments
you might have.
Roger Noe ...ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
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