https://github.com/timj/perl-astro-pal

Perl interface to Starlink positional astronomy library
https://github.com/timj/perl-astro-pal

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Perl interface to Starlink positional astronomy library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timj/perl-astro-pal
• Owner: timj
• Created: 2012-03-15T23:59:40.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-15T23:48:19.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-17T10:51:38.158Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: astronomy, perl, wcs
• Language: Perl
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• Size: 789 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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Astro::PAL -- interface to Starlink PAL C library

==========

This module provides an interface layer to the Starlink PAL positional

astronomy library.

An example program, stime, is provided. This simply reports the

current time (modified Julian day and local sidereal time for the JCMT).

Requirements:

-------------

A C compiler is required but the SOFA and PAL source code are included

with the distribution and will be built automatically.

Installation:

-------------

  % perl Build.PL

  % ./Build

  % ./Build test

  % ./Build install

The tests only test part of the build. Some functions remain untested.

See Astro::Coords for a general object-oriented wrapper around Astro::PAL.

Documentation:

--------------

The module provides documentation on how to use the perl interface

to PAL. It does not contain information on how to use

PAL itself.

The basic PAL documentation can be found at

 http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun267.htx/sun267.html

For more information the SLA documentation provides much more

detail:

  http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html

A description paper for PAL was published in the ADASS XXII

conference proceedings:

  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ASPC..475..307J

Please consider citing this if you use PAL or this module in your

research.

Copyright

---------

Copyright (C) 2014 Tim Jenness

Copyright (C) 2012 Tim Jenness and the Science and Technology Facilities

Council. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under

the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software

Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later

version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY

WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with

this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple

Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA

The array handling code was written by Karl Glazebrook.