Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

2021-07-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jul 28, 2021, at 17:20, Rob Pike wrote: > > If you mean, why is it spelled like that? Yes, exactly. Thinking about this on the drive home, I remembered “values of beeta“ and remembered these are listed in betatab, and figured it was something like that. Thank you for the response.

Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

2021-07-28 Thread Rob Pike
If you mean, why is it spelled like that? It's because the text was sent to the voice synthesizer for the 5PM Unix room ephemeris announcement. Tweaked spellings could improve pronunciation. -rob On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 9:42 AM Marshall Conover wrote: > Today's the peak of a seasonal meteor sh

Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

2021-07-28 Thread Marshall Conover
Today's the peak of a seasonal meteor shower. I'm pretty excited, gonna be out in the middle of nowhere this weekend, thinking of doing a timelapse. On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:34 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: > Speaking of astro, anyone know the story behind this? > > :; astro | sed 2q > 2021 7 28 >

[9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

2021-07-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
Speaking of astro, anyone know the story behind this? :; astro | sed 2q 2021 7 28 Pisces australid meeteeor shouwer :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c /sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61: event("%s meeteeor shouwer", --

Re: [9fans] Four numbers in /lib/sky/here

2021-07-28 Thread David du Colombier
The /lib/sky/here file hasn't been changed since the First Edition and there are only three numbers. https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commits/main/lib/sky/here -- David du Colombier -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fa

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-28 Thread Iruatã Souza
On 7/27/21 3:39 PM, k...@a-b.xyz wrote: >> Just pushed it to https://github.com/iru-/sam9f-unix. It might be >> outdated, but I still use it daily. > > It seems that you imported two months before '^' and '_' got added > (in 758496ecaa42b5f6c17c0bd1e0f43189e50e0745). > > There have been a few oth

Re: [9fans] Four numbers in /lib/sky/here

2021-07-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i suspect rob or ken would be the ones to ask, maybe something to do with some private flight planning or astronomy tool? -Steve On 27 Jul 2021, at 7:13 pm, Dan Cross wrote:  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:53 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: > There are a few other things which also use that file (