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SLA_NUTC - Nutation Components
ACTION:
Nutation (IAU 1980 theory): longitude & obliquity components, and mean obliquity.
CALL:
CALL sla_NUTC (DATE, DPSI, DEPS, EPS0)
GIVEN:
DATE
D
TDB (formerly ET) as Modified Julian Date (JD-2400000.5)
RETURNED:
DPSI,DEPS
D
nutation in longitude and obliquity (radians)
EPS0
D
mean obliquity (radians)
REFERENCES:
1.
Final report of the IAU Working Group on Nutation, chairman P.K.Seidelmann, 1980.
2.
Kaplan, G.H., 1981.
USNO circular no. 163
, pA3-6.
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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