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EXPLANATION AND EXAMPLES

To guide the writer of positional-astronomy applications software, this final chapter puts the SLALIB routines into the context of astronomical phenomena and techniques, and presents a few ``cookbook'' examples of the SLALIB calls in action. The astronomical content of the chapter is not, of course, intended to be a substitute for specialist text-books on positional astronomy, but may help bridge the gap between such books and the SLALIB routines. For further reading, the following cover a wide range of material and styles: Also of considerable value, though out of date in places, are: Only brief details of individual SLALIB routines are given here, and readers will find it useful to refer to the subprogram specifications elsewhere in this document. The source code for the SLALIB routines (available in both Fortran and C) is also intended to be used as documentation.



 

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SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library
Starlink User Note 67
P. T. Wallace
12 October 1999
E-mail:ptw@star.rl.ac.uk