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astroFns (version 4.0-0)

Astronomy: time and position functions, misc. utilities

Description

Miscellaneous astronomy functions, utilities, and data.

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install.packages('astroFns')

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Version

4.0-0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andrew Harris

Last Published

July 6th, 2012

Functions in astroFns (4.0-0)

Hours, minutes, and seconds to radians

gmst1

GMST1 (Greenwich Mean Siderial Time at 0h, UT1) from UT1 date

j2b

J2000 to B1950 coordinate converstion

rad2dms

Convert radians to degrees, minutes, and seconds

ut2lst

Universal time to local sidereal time or hour angle

ut2dmjd

UT to DMJD

angSep

Angular separation of two sky positions

astroFns-package

Astronomy: time and position functions, misc. utilities

jd2ymd

JD to year, month, date

ymd2jd

Year, month, day to 0h on Julian day

dms2rad

Degrees, minutes, and seconds to radians

b2j

B1950 to J2000 coordinate conversion

rad2hms

Convert radians to hours, minutes, and seconds

beamDiskOverlap

Gaussian beam and disk overlap with shift

planetFlux

Flux density from a thermal disk