Pocket Stars
References and
Bibliography
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[1]
Bangert, John A. and Kaplan, George H. "NOVAS-C, Naval Observatory Vector
Astrometry Subroutines, C Version 2.0.1."
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/novas/novas_c/novasc_info.html.
NOVAS provides the core routines for star, planet,
sun, and moon positions. These same routines are used in MICA and to
produce the Nautical Almanac published by the United States Naval
Observatory.
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[2]
Standish, et al. "DE405: JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides".
ftp://navigator.jpl.nasa.gov
The latest JPL ephemeris, created in May-June, 1997.
DE405 is based upon the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF),
the newly-adopted reference frame of the International Astronomical Union
(IAU). The frames of DE200 and DE405 differ by no more than about 0.01
arcseconds.
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Hoffleit D., Warren Jr W.H., "The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised
Edition". Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC (1991).
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc-cgi/cat.pl?/catalogs/5/5050/
The Bright Star Catalogue (BSC) is widely used as a
source of basic astronomical and astrophysical data for stars brighter
than magnitude 6.5. The catalog contains the identifications of included
stars in several other widely-used catalogs, double- and multiple-star
identifications, indication of variability and variable-star identifiers,
equatorial positions for B1900.0 and J2000.0, galactic coordinates, UBVRI
photoelectric photometric data when they exist, spectral types on the
Morgan-Keenan (MK) classification system, proper motions (J2000.0),
parallax, radial- and rotational-velocity data, and multiple-star
information (number of components, separation, and magnitude differences)
for known nonsingle stars.
The BSC contains 9110 objects, of which 9096 are
stars (14 objects catalogued in the original compilation of 1908 are novae
or extragalactic objects that have been retained to preserve the
numbering, but most of their data are omitted).
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[4]
Heafner, Paul J. "Fundamental Ephemeris Computations, For Use with JPL
Data". Willmann-Bell, Inc. 1999.
This book provided the keys to getting Novas and the
JPL data to work together.
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[5]
United States Naval Observatory. "The Nautical Almanac for the year
2001", US Government Printing Office.
The algorithms for sight reduction and fix computation come from the
2001 edition of the Nautical Almanac.
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[6]
Meeus, Jean. "Astronomical Algorithms", Willmann-Bell, Inc. 2000.
Although Pocket Stars does not use the positional
calculations found in this book, it is invaluable as a general text on
astronomical calculations.
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Duffett-Smith, Peter. "Practical Astronomy with your Calculator". Cambridge
University Press, 1988.
Not as comprehensive as Meeus, but valuable as an
alternative approach which is more methodical with step-by-step solutions
to astronomical problems.
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[8]
NASA. "Planetary Fact Sheets",
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
All of the planetary data and images on the info page
are from NASA.
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