Publisher review:libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library. libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library. The intended audience of libnova is C / C programmers, astronomers and anyone else interested in calculating positions of astronomical objects or celestial mechanics.
The current version of libnova can calculate:
- Aberration
- Nutation
- Apparent Position
- Dynamical Time
- Julian Day
- Precession
- Proper Motion
- Sidereal Time
- Solar Coordinates (using VSOP87)
- Coordinate Transformations
- Planetary Positions Mercury - Pluto (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87)
- Planetary Magnitude, illuminated disk and phase angle.
- Lunar Position (using ELP82), phase angle.
- Elliptic Motion of bodies (Asteroid Comet positional and orbit data)
- Asteroid Comet magnitudes
- Parabolic Motion of bodies (Comet positional data)
- Orbit velocities and lengths
- Atmospheric refraction
- Rise, Set and Transit times.
- Semidiameters of the Sun, Moon, Planets and asteroids.
- Angular separation of bodies
- Hyperbolic motion of bodies
libnova 0.11 is a C/C++ script for Miscellaneous scripts design by Liam Girdwood.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris