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ephcoeff

Section: ephemeris.com (1)
Updated: May 2004
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NAME

ephcoeff - print ephemeris coefficients for a Julian Day to stdout  

SYNOPSIS

ephcoeff binary-ephemeris-file JD
 

DESCRIPTION

Prints a parsed output of a data block from a JPL binary ephemeris file that covers the desired Julian Day. Output is printed to stdout.

binary-ephemeris-file
the binary ephemeris file.
JD
the Julian Day (a double precision value) for which to print coefficients.

ephcoeff takes a Julian Day from the command line and determines which block spans that date in the binary ephemeris file. If the date is out of range of the ephemeris, an error message is printed. If not, ephcoeff will print a parsed output of all data in a data block, starting with the first and last Julian Day covered by the block, and proceeding with the data for each body. For each body, data is broken down by subinterval. For each subinterval, data is broken down by coordinate. For each coordinate, data is broken down by Chebyshev coefficient.

The output is printed to stdout, and it is verbose (a little over one line per coefficient, which is over 1,000 lines for DE405).  

AUTHOR

Written by Paul Hardy, ephemeris.com.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bugs@ephemeris.com>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1994-2004 Paul Hardy

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html on the web.  

SEE ALSO

eph2eph(1), eph2asc(1), asc2eph(1), testeph(1), headcmp(1), ephcmp(1), vtransit(1)


 

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