At 5:47 PM +0200 11/5/08, Mika Heiskanen wrote:
Hello,
I would like to think that it would be possible to create a library for common astronomical calculations, and I think boost might be the proper place to create one for the C++ community.
First a definition: by common calculations I mean those most relevant to every dat life. For normal people this would pretty much exclude most astronomical calculations except those concerning the sun and the moon.
Some examples on what calculations I think would be common are:
o sunrise, sunset, noon
o sun elevation, azimuth, declination
o length of the day
o phase of the moon, and whether the visible fraction is increasing or not
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