Questions on the astronomical applications of Mathematica.
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The Orbit and Perigee of the Flamsteed comet
Historical context
This year we have the 330-th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna - one of the great formative events of European history, it took place on September 12, 1683.
Kara Mustafa, Grand ...
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How is AstronomicalData interpreting its date arguments?
It is easy to confirm that the AstronomicalData is not interpreting its arguments as UTC (or "GMT", which is, in any case, ambiguous) dates by verifying that the ...
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Is there a way to get AbsoluteTime to correctly report absolute time differences?
Absolute time supposedly reports the "total number of seconds" between two dates, but it does not. For example because of the leap second applied at 2012-06-30T23:59:60Z
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How do I compute sidereal time and JD?
There was once a package that provided a wide range of functions for computing astronomical information. This package now appears to be out of date; but as near as I can tell, many of the useful ...
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How do I determine astronomical transit times?
Mathematica, through the "legacy" Scientific Astronomer package, used to have the ability to easily determine accurate transit times of astronomical objects simply, with ...
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What do AstronomicalData's “SetTime” and “RiseTime” values refer to?
What astronomical event do AstronomicalData's "NextRiseTime", "NextSetTime", ...
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Creating a simulation of our Solar System
As the title says, my objective is to create a simulation of the motion of the planets in our Solar System using Mathematica. All the theoretical background regarding the equations of motion of ...
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Why is AstronomicalData so slow?
I'm having trouble getting some pretty simple functions using AstronomicalData to perform at anywhere near the speed I need them to.
For example, I have many ...
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Why is Neptune missing from AstronomicalData?
An old notebook I've recently started working with has a strange error: Prior to version 8, a figure I generated using Drop[AstronomicalData["Planet"],-1] to ...
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Problems getting clean sunrise, sunset, civil, nautical and astronomical twilight data
If in a notebook you enter:
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