THE ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC(S)
Produced every year by the US Naval Observatory and the UK Hydrographic Office, these detailed and highly-respected guides have been used to test and confirm the accuracy of the products and other offerings available here on our website. They have also been used to confirm the accuracy of CELESTIA itself.
ASTRONOMICAL ALGORITHMS
Written by Jean Meeus, the highly respected "part-time" astro-math-wizard whose contributions to the field of "computational astronomy" are legendary, this book is considered a "landmark" on the subject. Our following creations employ algorithms from this superb work: Solar Eclipse Finder, Lunar Eclipse Finder and "celeSTARrium".
"Astronomical Algorithms", by Jean Meeus, © 1991 by Willman-Bell, Inc.
3D MATH PRIMER for Graphics and Game Development
This impressively comprehensive review of 3-dimensional math concepts and theory was helpful during the development of the CELX / LUA code for "celeSTARrium" in particular. If you want to gain an intuitive understanding of vectors, matrices and quaternions, here's a good place to start.
"3D MATH PRIMER for Graphics and Game Development", by Fletcher Dunn and Ian Parberry, © 2002 Wordware Publishing, Inc.
FIFTY YEAR CANON OF SOLAR ECLIPSES: 1986-2035 &
FIFTY YEAR CANON OF LUNAR ECLIPSES: 1986-2035
NASA's original "eclipse bibles" produced in the late 1980's, these works proved helpful in testing the accuracy of Solar Eclipse Finder, Lunar Eclipse Finder and "celeSTARrium".
"Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035" and "Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986-2035", NASA Reference Publications 1178 Revised (June 1987) and 1216 (March 1989), both by Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Center, NASA.
CANON OF LUNAR ECLIPSES 1500 B.C - A.D. 3000
The extensive tables of this book were consulted to test the accuracy of Lunar Eclipse Finder and "celeSTARrium".
"Canon of Lunar Eclipses 1500 B.C.-A.D. 3000", by Bao-Lin Liu & Alan D. Fiala, © 1992 by Willman-Bell, Inc.
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CELESTIA
Although they are also referenced on the Legal page, it would seem remiss not to include the CELESTIA Development Team here on the Credits page too. In our view, their efforts have truly produced one of the "7 Wonders of the Computer-Simulation Universe!"
"CELESTIA", by: Chris Laurel, Clint Weisbrod, Fridger Schrempp, Christophe Teyssier, Grant Hutchison, Pat Suwalski, Toti, Da Woon Jung, Hank Ramsey, Bob Ippolito, Vincent Giangiulio and Andrew Tribick. Copyright © 2001-2011, Celestia Development Team.
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