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Slovenian Nautical Almanac - Part 5 - From Astrometric to Apparent coordinates

11.03.2016
Aljoša Kocen

Corrections for Precession, Nutation, and Aberration of Light are applied to calculated Astrometric coordinates.


Slovenian Nautical Almanac - Part 4 - UTC, TDB, UT1...

07.03.2016
Aljoša Kocen

A brief explanation on different times and time scales used. Calculation of DeltaT is also presented.


Slovenian Nautical Almanac - Part 3 - Astrometric Coordinates

04.03.2016
Aljoša Kocen

Calculation of Astrometric equatorial coordinates for sun and planets ishown. Light-time correction of coordinates is also discussed. Compari


Slovenian Nautical Almanac - Part 2 - JPL DE 405 Ephemerides

22.02.2016
Aljoša Kocen

Description of JPL DE405 Ephemerides files


Slovenian Nautical Almanac - Part 1 - Intro

20.02.2016
Aljoša Kocen

Reading JPL DE Planetary ephemerides files, transforming them to Excel format, and basic planetary position calculation for obtaining the positions of Sun, all planets, and Moon.