Description of project:

JAlma is Java Astronomical Almanac.

License:

JAlma - Java Astronomical Almanac.

Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Hristozov.

JAlma is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

JAlma is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The latest version of the JAlma and news can be found on page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jalma/.

Files and folders:

JAlma.jar

To run the program from the command line, go to the distribution folder and type the following:
java -jar "JAlma.jar"

ascp2000.405 or ascp1980.405 or ascp1900.421

Files that contains JPL ephemerides and can be downloaded from ftp://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/eph/planets/ascii. These files mast be in the same folder as JAlma.jar.

gpl-3.0.txt

GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

readme.html

This file.

/lib

Folder with compiled libraries, which mast be in the same folder as JAlma.jar

/src

Folder contains a source files for project.

Versions of project:

v 0.3 / 2010 June 01

First pre-alpha release. Program can compute visibility of Sun, Moon and planets, and also their ephemerides. The times of rise and set for Moon and planets may be incorrect.

References:

JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides.
Java library JKepler.
Java library JDEread.