Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ascl.soft12013d&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl:1112.013
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
XEphem is a scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris package for UNIX-like systems. Written in C, X11 and Motif, it is easily ported to systems. Among other things, XEphem: * computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects; * has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's Great Red Spot; * allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites; * provides special efficient handling of large catalogs including Tycho, Hipparcos, GSC; * displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with several interactive graphical views; * displays a night-at-a-glance 24 hour graphic showing when any selected objects are up; * displays 3-D stereo Solar System views that are particularly well suited for visualizing comet trajectories; * quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky; and * sorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for creating custom observing lists.Its capabilities are listed more fully in the user manual introduction.
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