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A Jorune Astronomicon by Ugul d'Ysengrin Thursday, December 31, 1998 Manual for JOMOONS program version 0.8.3 In girum imus nocte et consuminur igni. Contents Contents_______________________________________________________ 2 1. Forewords ___________________________________________________ 4 1.1 Why a Jorune Astronomicon ? ____________________________________ 4 1.2 Who is Ugul d'Ysengrin__________________________________________ 5 1.3 Thanks________________________________________________________ 5 1.4 Copyrights, Warranty and Disclaim _______________________________ 6 1.4.1.Nothing is registered, but : ____________________________________________ 6 1.4.2. Warranty and disclaim. ______________________________________________ 6 1.4.3. Copyright ________________________________________________________ 6 2. Some consideration about Jorune books ___________________________ 6 2.1. There are some errors or some omissions in Jorune books_____________ 6 2.2. What is said in Jorune books _____________________________________ 7 2.3. Some dunce mathematics ________________________________________ 7 2.3.1 Full moon apparent period ____________________________________________ 7 2.3.2 Alignment period ___________________________________________________ 8 2.3. What I decided ________________________________________________ 8 2.3.1. Jorune calendar and program days gone number __________________________ 8 2.3.2. Setting a date for seven moons' alignment _______________________________ 9 3. Jomoons comprehension ______________________________________ 10 3.1. Jomoons manual ______________________________________________ 10 3.1.1. General syntax ___________________________________________________ 10 3.1.2. List of commands _________________________________________________ 10 3.1.3. Jomoons usage examples : __________________________________________ 11 3.1.4. Computing time___________________________________________________ 12 3.2. Moons configuration chart ______________________________________ 12 3.3. Jomoons program sources ______________________________________ 13 4. What is coming next __________________________________________ 14 4.1. New features _________________________________________________ 14 4.2. Java portage and graphical user interface _________________________ 14 4.3. What should be set before these new features ______________________ 14 2 4.3.1. In order to fix what is already done : __________________________________ 14 4.3.2. In order to compute eclipse : _________________________________________ 14 4.3.3. In order to view an animated view of Jorune sky : ________________________ 15 4.3.4. In order to compute a tidal chart : _____________________________________ 15 4.3.5 In order to compute an Isho weather chart : ______________________________ 15 5. Bugs reports ________________________________________________ 15 5.1 Of course there are bugs ________________________________________ 15 5.1.1. Some have been corrected since previous versions________________________ 15 5.1.2. Some are still there ! _______________________________________________ 16 5.2. Please report bugs _____________________________________________ 16 6. Charts that might help for my dunce fellows ! _____________________ 16 6.1. Chart - 1 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.2. Chart - 2 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.3. Chart - 3 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.4. Chart - 4 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.5. Chart - 5 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.6. Chart - 6 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.7. Chart - 7 -____________________________________________________ 16 6.8. Chart - 8 -____________________________________________________ 17 6.9. Chart - 9 -____________________________________________________ 17 6.10. Chart - 10 -__________________________________________________ 17 7. Frequently Asked Questions____________________________________ 28 8. Conclusion _________________________________________________ 28 3 1. Forewords Yes, this is written in Frenglish, a French encryption method even the most recent and powerful computers cannot hack ! Sorry for pure English readers, sorry for French only readers. French fellows speaking that very particular English learnt in French public schools should easily decrypt Frenglish ! Good luck ! 1.1 Why a Jorune Astronomicon ? On earth, many things depend on moon. Tides, sowing time, plant grow, animal moods, fish spawn, bird migrations, crops, weather changes, some even say murders, depend on moon ... For many men, moon ephemeris is an everyday important matter. Great and powerful events are moon leaded. In Mont Saint-Michel bay, during equinox full moon, tidal range can be more than fifteen meters, sea runs on sand faster than an horse, and in river Couesnon, a tidal wave, one meter high, runs upstream at fifty kilometers an hour. And I am not speaking of Amazon River tidal wave ! Earth has a moon ; Jorune has seven ! I deduct moons' ephemeris is, at least, seven, but probably forty-nine times more important on Jorune than on earth ! So, as a Sholari, I often wonder, when country toth should sow durlig and when they should harvest ! And I cannot response these questions because I do not know moon configurations. We can find some data reading Sholari Companion calendar, but it is only for year 3493, and there isn't data for each Jorune moon. Desti has been forgotten, there is a mistake for Gobey and we can only found full moon days. I write to Joe (Sholari list) on May 1998 for some precision about 3493-year calendar and then a discussion begin with Dave about Jorune astronomical data and related problems. So I decided to write some lines of C to compute moon ephemeris and fix problems. I began on 1998, May the first, while I was tied down to Paris town duty all this three days week-end and I had just to wait in a sad room with " red " phones some " disaster " to occur. No disaster occurred and I could peacefully write some C. Unfortunately, these last months, I had little time for programming. That is why this piece of code is coming so late and that is why it is not the definitive version. With this documentation file you should have got JOMOONS.EXE version 0, release 8, fixes 3. If not, complain ! 4 1.2 Who is Ugul d'Ysengrin Ugul d'Ysengrin is an old Rune Quest character name, and a pen name for this work. You can write to Ugul by different means : - write to udysengrin@europost.org - write to Sholari list : sholari-list@eskimo.com - write to Jorune list : jorune-l@io.com - write a paper letter with nice stamps (or ugly ones if you haven't got nice !) to Jean-Claude Huet (it's me) 62, rue d'Aubervilliers, 75019 Paris, France. This is a picture of me for you can recognize me if we meet ! An another assumed name could be W.E. Coyote ! 1.3 Thanks Very special thanks to Dave who enlightened my Paleolithic oil lamp with very precise responses to my dunce questions. Thanks to Dave, Fred (Tucson, Arizona), Ted, and Joe for their support. Thanks to Noah who helps me when I was misusing the Jorune-l list and who helps me twice when ASTRON.EXE joined file was too big. Thanks to Fred (Rennes, France) for our fruitful exchange. 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |