Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

[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.

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Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

[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 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
>> Pisces australid  meeteeor shouwer
>>  :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c
>> /sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61:
>>  event("%s  meeteeor shouwer",
>
>
> --
> Have a good day,
>
> Marshall Conover
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Re: [9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

[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
> Pisces australid  meeteeor shouwer
>  :; agrep meeteeor /sys/src/cmd/astro/*.c
> /sys/src/cmd/astro/search.c:61:
>  event("%s  meeteeor shouwer",


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[9fans] astro: meeteeor shouwer?

[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",

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

[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

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

[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 other changes very useful for scripting, like
> the $% and $%dot variables exported to forked procs giving a current
> file name and selection.
> 

Thanks, updated to 9front commit 70d173bfa.

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

[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 (e.g. latcmp, the 2e 
> road(1), gmap (who did that?) my darksky program). I’m wondering if I’m 
> missing something that uses that fourth number. I certainly can’t rule out 
> user error.

Could it be an azimuth that's consumed by something?

- Dan C.

> > On Jul 27, 2021, at 10:20, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The fourth number looks like a mistake.
> > astro(1) only parses the first three numbers.
> > 
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