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Author SHA1 Message Date
Don Cross
f2ee3d38b8 Moved JPL Horizons file for DeltaT so it doesn't break unit tests.
I downloaded the airless_Moon_dt.txt file from JPL Horizons so that
I could reverse engineer their DeltaT function. But keeping it in
the horizons directory caused unit test breakage. Moved to delta_t
directory so dtplot can still use it to make graphs.
2020-05-15 14:16:11 -04:00
Don Cross
3b521d65b5 Also plot Delta T using JPL Horizons data. 2020-05-15 13:43:59 -04:00
Don Cross
55d7467678 Documented that I have figured out the JPL Horizons refraction formula.
I created a Jupyter notebook that shows how I figured out the
refraction formula used by the JPL Horizons online tool.
2019-04-13 21:13:32 -04:00
Don Cross
e2ff9b2197 JPL checker works for airless (no refraction) apparent coords.
Verified that the JPL checker works for apparent coordinates,
equatorial-of-date and horizontal, when I tell the JPL Horizons
tool to use its "airless" (no refraction) model.

Still need to implement refraction for at least horizontal coordinates
(where it really matters for rise/set times).
2019-04-12 17:16:41 -04:00
Don Cross
788e7334ea Test data generated by using the JPL Horizons online tool.
Used the JPL Horizons web interface at
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi
to generate test data for astrometric RA/DEC,
apparent RA/DEC, and apparent az/alt.
Will use this as a secondary unit test to confirm
that I'm not fooling myself by incorrectly using the
NOVAS C 3.1 code for unit tests.
2019-04-12 14:14:49 -04:00