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/.
For contact with author:
name: Peter Hristozov.
Email: peterhri@hotmail.com
address:
Victor Ugo street 15a,
Plovdiv 4000,
Bulgaria.
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.