Salam, Thamer, do you have some literature about the new "astro" thingie in itl? I'd like to know what it means.
thnx in advance. Omar Abo-Namous On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:43:41 +0300, Thamer Mahmoud wrote: > abdulhaq writes: >> this is a message for Thamer really... >> >> I want to release a new version of kprayertime, on account of various >> usability improvements. However, I'd also like to include ITL when it has >> stabilised. Is there any estimate of when that would be? >> > > All major changes that were planned for the ITL 0.6 release have > already landed on CVS. The only thing left is a small update to add > "Location.pressure" and "Location.temperature". This "final" update > will happen in the next two days Inshallah. I'm done coding this but > I still havn't done any testing with the new code. > > Nadim, is the plan to move (ipraytime, ical, idate) to their own > folder and make process still on? If you want to do this, now is a > good time ;-). If you don't, just give your thoughts/suggestion on how > to proceed with this and I'll do it later (after updating libprayer). > > >> Also, I asked the developer of libnova if it used VSOP87 for the >> sunrise/sunset calculations and he said that it did. He also felt that due >> to atmospheric refraction the times would only be accurate to about 20 >> seconds or so. >> >> wassalaam >> abdulhaq > > > If your intention is to test against libnova or other astronomy > software, I'd suggest you use what's currently on CVS rather than > waiting for the next update. The next update will introduce a couple > of Earth specific changes that might not be available (or activated by > default) in most of these astronomy tools. Also remember to disable > atmospheric refraction by setting the atmospheric pressure value to > zero (until we add support for this in the ITL's libprayer). > > As for my own "extensive but not exhaustive" testing, so far so good > :-). Tests were performed against NASA's ephemeris generator [1] and > we're getting the same exact hours and minutes (with similar setup > and with proper rounding changes to ITL). I will be doing some more > tests just to be sure that all settings of the ephemeris generator > are being setup correctly and optimized for accuracy as much as > possible. > > For testing the seconds value, I compared results with the "Sky Map > Pro" results posted on this article [2] and a few other tools, which I > don't have links to at the moment. Anyways, the difference never > exceeded a plus or minus 1 second for sunrise and sunset. > > [1] http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph > [2] http://www.xylem.f2s.com/kepler/moonrise.html > > > Salaam, > > Thamer Mahmoud > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general -- Omar Abo-Namous, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13.07.2004 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
