[Kstars-devel] Duplication for proper motion, the inaccurate way

Akarsh Simha akarshsimha at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 01:39:37 CEST 2008


Hi James,

> You mentioned you are using a script to do this.  If it is a Perl 
> script, could you do the same calculation with the correct formula
> I sent you and Jason?  My guess is that the duplication might increase
> a little with the correct formula and I just want to be sure that the
> increase is not significant.

Yes, it's the same old read-hippo.pl, heavily modified. I'll do that
shortly.

> I can resend the Perl code if that would be easier than searching for
> it.  The subject line is "Correct Proper Motion correction in Perl".

Not required, I've retained it amidst the few 50 mails I have in my
inbox, so it shouldn't be hard to find it.

Regards
Akarsh


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