IAU standard algorithms published

Markus Kuhn Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Apr 24 11:47:27 UTC 2001


The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Standards Of Fundamental
Astronomy (SOFA) project has started to release various reference
algorithms for astronomic applications. It is currently all in
Fortran 77, but other languages might follow.

http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/

Included in the first base release are a couple of calendar and time
scale conversion algorithms:

http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/2001_0331/Astronomy.html

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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