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This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth…
You can get 10' accuracy with a few kilobytes of polynomials. Some astronomical (and astrological) programs use polynomials a few megabytes big. JPL ephems are 1 to 100 gigabytes.
I had look at source code, it seems like very inaccurate approximation, real planet position could be a few degrees different. You can get 10' accuracy with a few kilobytes of polynomials. Some astronomical (and astrological) programs use polynomials a few megabytes big. JPL ephems are 1 to 100 gigabytes.
The moon is missing. Let me know when you figure that one out.
I had look at source code, it seems like very inaccurate approximation, real planet position could be a few degrees different. You can get 10' accuracy with a few kilobytes of polynomials. Some astronomical (and astrological) programs use polynomials a few megabytes big. JPL ephems are 1 to 100 gigabytes.
You raise an interesting question. Does accuracy matter for something like this? Would a more accurate version be better...?
This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth…
The moon is missing. Let me know when you figure that one out.
% pom
The Moon is Waning Crescent (20% of Full)
% man pom
POM(6) FreeBSD Games Manual POM(6)
NAME
pom — display the phase of the moon
SYNOPSIS
pom [-p] [-d yyyy.mm.dd] [-t hh:mm:ss]
DESCRIPTION
The pom utility displays the current phase of the moon. Useful for
selecting software completion target dates and predicting managerial
behavior.
Use the -p option to print just the phase as a percentage.
Use the arguments -d and -t to specify a specific date and time for which
the phase of the moon has to be calculated. If -d but not -t has been
specified, it will calculate the phase of the moon on that day at mid‐
night.
SEE ALSO
`Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator' by Duffett-Smith.
FreeBSD 10.1 July 14, 2010 FreeBSD 10.1This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth…
This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth…
Better look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.