A little ASCII astronomy |
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A little ASCII astronomy |
 May 29 2013, 01:40 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 6180  |
Put this together over the holiday weekend. A twitter bot which represents the position of Jupiter's 4 largest moons in ASCII form
https://twitter.com/JupiterMoonPos Originally created as an easy to access way to identify the moons during public observing sessions for my local astronomy club, the Perl code behind it is based on algorithms by Jean Meeus in his book “Astronomical Algorithms”. As a happy accident, when you hold down the 'J' or 'K' keys, you get an animation of the moons orbiting. I grabbed https://twitter.com/SaturnMoonPos and will do that next. |
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May 31 2013, 12:34 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
This is so cool - thank you for the link!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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