[AstroPy] Meteor Methods--Atmospheric Trajectories, PC Book on Astronmy
Wayne Watson
sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 24 16:21:52 EST 2009
Is anyone familiar with some of the mathematical methods for calculating
atmospheric trajectories for two stations. Have they been implemented in
Python?
There's a computer book with the title something like PC Computations
for Astronomy. (Ah, Astronomy for the Personal Computer) I believe the
latest version provides methods for C++, and earlier editions for older
languages. In one of the later chapters the authors delve into what I
think is called plate reduction. (Ah, the chapter is titled Astrometry.)
The idea is that an image of the night sky is provided and a catalog is
examined to identify stars on the image. Has anyone implemented the
various algorithms used for this in Python?
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