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Re: For which celestial bodies is it relevant to display the lunar distance?
From: Murray Peake
Date: 2021 Dec 4, 03:05 -0800
From: Murray Peake
Date: 2021 Dec 4, 03:05 -0800
Hi Andrew,
I like the lunar distance charts - are you going to put the code up on GitHub?.
On your adaptation of PyAlmanac, I could get your SFalmanac to generate almanacs but on the full year generation Pyalmanac and SkyAlmanac appeared to hang in June (at one point I saw an exception due to an unitialised prevsetting I think...) Possibly I need to read the documentation.
I spot checked a handful of values against the old PyAlmanac and noticed a few discrepancies of 0.1 minutes - possibly that's due to some variation in delta T?
I had an interesting time getting things to run - I have an unsupported Ubuntu 16.04 which I keep because of a cross compiler withdrawn in later versions. Time to upgrade on another machine I guess.
Best Regards
Murray
