libnova  v 0.16.0
libnova
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Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics Library

Introduction

libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library.

The intended audience of libnova is C / C++ programmers, astronomers and anyone else interested in calculating positions of astronomical objects or celestial mechanics. libnova is the calculation engine used by the Nova project and most importantly, is free software.

Features

The current version of libnova can calculate:

Documentation

API documentation for libnova is included in the source. It can also be found in this website and an offline tarball is available here.

Download

The latest released version of libnova is 0.15.0 It is available for download here.

GIT

The latest GIT version of libnova is available via GIT here.

Licence

libnova is released under the GNU LGPL.

Help

If you are interested in helping in the future development of libnova, then please get in touch. Currently, we are needing help in the folowing areas.

Authors

libnova is maintained by Liam Girdwood and Petr Kubanek.

Thanks

Thanks to Jean Meeus for most of the algorithms used in this library. From his book "Astronomical Algorithms".

Thanks to Michelle Chapront-Touze and Jean Chapront for publishing the Lunar Solution ELP 2000-82B.

Thanks to Messrs. Bretagnon and Francou for publishing planetary solution VSOP87.

Also thanks to Sourceforge for hosting this project.