These security updates do not affect users of Astronomy Engine.
They were flagged by Dependabot on GitHub to the steps
I use for building the TypeScript/JavaScript versions of
Astronomy Engine. The resulting code does not have any
external dependencies that need to be maintained.
Refactored SearchRiseSet to create a new function
InternalSearchAltitude. SearchRiseSet calls InternalSearchAltitude,
and the new function SearchAltitude also cals InternalSearchAltitude.
This causes the code to be only a tiny big larger.
The formatting of the JS documentation for class
GlobalSolarEclipseInformation was messed up in the
generated Markdown file. Fixed that issue in the
JS comments.
Bumping npm version to 2.0.6, to include recent
barycentric state and Earth gravity calculations.
The npm dependencies required are now
installed locally inside the generate folder.
Cleaned up the Astronomy object closure for TS
and kept it for the Browser bundle.
We will have some usage examples in the website.
The minimized code astronomy.min.js is now significantly smaller
because it uses a completely new algorithm for calculating
the position of Pluto. Instead of using TOP2013 formulas directly,
it simulates the gravitational forces on Pluto between 40
precalculated checkpoints spread over a 4000 year range.
