EPH4MOVE

Name

eph4move

Purpose

Generates ephemeris files for use by the MOVE computer.

Description

Calling Sequence

eph4move,objfile,outfile,TIME=time

Inputs

objfile - String containing file name of objects to generate ephemerides
for. This file is a correspondence list between offical
object codes (see EPHEM.PRO) and common names. RDMATCH
Gives a description of the format of this file.
outfile - String containing file name for output, this is the file you
will give to the MOVE program.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

TIME - By default, the program will read the system clock and generate
an output file consistent with the current date. However,
if you wish to override the date, you give a time vector
here such as [1995,11,30,0,0,0]. You can also specify a
Julian date (scalar) for the starting time.
NDAYS - Number of days to run ephemeris for, default = 1
DT - Spacing between ephemeris points, default = 1 hour.

Outputs

All information is written to the output file.

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

This is setup to work for Anderson Mesa only.

Procedure

Modification History

1995/11/30, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
1995/12/20, MWB, Added NDAYS and DT keywords.
1996/05/02, MWB, Fixed pipe overflow problem when doing to many position.
1998/07/03, MWB, added JD option to TIME
2009/11/09, MWB, minor change to force object code to uppercase when sending
to geteph. Some codes aren't accepted as lowercase.