oce (version 0.9-12)

julianCenturyAnomaly: Convert a Julian-Day number to a time in julian centuries since noon on January 1, 1900.

Description

Convert a Julian-Day number to a time in julian centuries since noon on January 1, 1900.

Usage

julianCenturyAnomaly(jd)

Arguments

jd

a julian day number, e.g. as given by julianDay.

Value

• Julian century since noon on January 1, 1900.

Details

The method follows Meese (1982 equation 15.1). The example reproduces the example provided by Meeuse (1982 example 15.a), with fractional error 3e-8.

References

Meeus, Jean, 1982. Astronomical formuae for Calculators. Willmann-Bell. Richmond VA, USA. 201 pages

Examples

t <- ISOdatetime(1978, 11, 13, 4, 35, 0, tz="UTC")
jca <- julianCenturyAnomaly(julianDay(t))
cat(format(t), "is Julian Century anomaly", format(jca, digits=8), "")