[Coco] Tonight's total lunar eclipse...

[Aaron Banerjee]

Gene,
    Just from the output you provided, it probably is.  I got it out  
of "Astronomy" magazine back in '86 and got it to work on my coco.  I  
wrote it in "true blue" Extended BASIC.  We didn't have those fancy  
"double precision" numbers, so I used what we had.  If your original  
BASIC program refers to "ET" instead of UT, it's the same one...  It  
would be nice to know that something I actually did for the coco is  
still out there...
                           - Aaron


On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:06 PM, gene heskett wrote:
>
> Would that program by any chance be the one I converted from some  
> sort of
> truebasic to c, and compiled to run on a coco2 about 24 years ago  
> now??
>
> Good grief, all those years.
>     Eclipse Event Summary
> Date of eclipse    12/21/2010 AD
> Type of eclipse    Total Lunar
> Moon is at         Descending node
> Moon passes North of earths shadow axis
> Eclipse Magnitude  1.251904
>
>     Phase times of eclipse
> Moon enters Penumbra   5:39
> Moon enters umbra      6:39
> Totality begins        7:38
> Maximum eclipse        8:17
> Totality ends          8:56
> Moon leaves umbra      9:55
> Moon leaves Penumbra   10:55
>
> Times above are I believe in GMT.  And since the coco's clock  
> doesn't get
> corrected for DST, I believe the times here on the right coast at  
> GMT-5?
>
> In any event, pretty close...
>
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> Cheers, Gene
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