NAME:
sspos
PURPOSE:
Interactive program for generating solar system body ephemerides.
DESCRIPTION:
Interactive front-end for EPHEM. Given object code (format described
in EPHEM), this will compute positions and give local circumstances
of the object. Reads the current time from the system clock which
may or may not be accurate.
All output is printed on the screen.
CATEGORY:
Astronomy
CALLING SEQUENCE:
INPUTS:
OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS:
KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS:
TIME - optional time [y,m,d,h,m,s] for positions
AMCRIT - Critical airmass for rise/set times.
OBSFILE - Override on file name where observatory codes are to be found.
OBSCODE - Integer Marsden code of the observatory, default 688 - Anderson Mesa
APO - Flag, if set, enables a special output mode for Apache Pt. Obs.
OUTPUTS:
KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS:
COMMON BLOCKS:
SIDE EFFECTS:
RESTRICTIONS:
This procedure requires an external ephemeris computation engine that
is accessed through pipe I/O. It probably won't work away from Lowell
Observatory unless you provide a compatible engine.
PROCEDURE:
MODIFICATION HISTORY:
94/04/11 - Initial version written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory.
95/05/03 - Added TIME keyword
95/09/10 - Fixed bug that causes program to crash for objects that never
rise or set
96/12/27 - MWB, added interactive 'T' time set option.
97/03/05 - MWB, added FILE and OBSCODE keywords
2001/03/22, David Tucker, changed obsfile support
2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.
2001/04/20, MWB, changed to support new geteph/ephem
2002/09/09, MWB, added support for string obscode values
2010/04/29, MWB, added APO keyword