Re: [guide-user] Lunar eclipses

kjcooper Nov 16, 2000

Paul Schlyter wrote:
>
> Bill J. Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> > For those who are wondering... Jean-Paul asked about creating charts
> > of lunar eclipses, specifically the one of 9 Jan 2001, for his
> > astronomy club. Olivier Ruau pointed out that Guide can produce
> charts
> > of solar eclipses, but not lunar eclipses. Unfortunately, he is
> right.
> >
> > But a long time ago, I wrote a small DOS program to display lunar
> > eclipse charts. I had forgotten about it until now, but I've just
> > posted it at
> >
> > http://www.projectpluto.com/luneclip.htm
> >
> > A sample chart (for 9 Jan 2001) is posted at:
> >
> > http://www.projectpluto.com/luneclip.gif
>
> Thanks Bill -- I downloaded that program and ran it. It has one
> problem however: no coastlines or country boundaries are drawn, only
> the areas of visibility of the eclipse are drawn. Is there a missing
> file somewhere?
>
> It also appears some of the source files are missing: several .h
> files are #include'd which aren't there in that zip file.
>
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I downloaded the program and it work fine.

Kevin Cooper.