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# Astronomically Obfuscated
James Bonfield
MRC Laboratory of Molcular Biology
Hills Road,
Cambridge
CB2 2QH
England
James Bonfield
MRC Laboratory of Molcular Biology
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 2QH
England
## To build:
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## Judges' remarks:
This program may have you going around in circles :-) Try running it
first before reading the Selected Author's Comments below.
first before reading the author's remarks below.
The judges verified the correctness of output for recent dates
thru visual observation.
through visual observation.
## Author's remarks:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ the fraction of a day to skip forward for each screen refresh. I suggest:
To display the output (still guessing?) for a given date, specify two
arguments. The first argument is as before and the second argument is a
Julian day number (given as a fractional component). Eg:
Julian day number (given as a fractional component). E.g.:
```sh
./rince 0 2441193.6
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Julian day number (given as a fractional component). Eg:
A Julian day is defined to be the number of days since January 1st in
the year -4712 (4713BC), starting at 12 noon GMT.[1] To aid conversion
from our time (GMT) to Julian day there is a supplementary program
named: dmy2jd.c. Run it with "day_float month year" as arguments. See
named: dmy2jd.c. Run it with `day_float month year` as arguments. See
below for an example.
### What it does
@@ -82,10 +82,12 @@ assure you that the parallax is minimal!
The moons are labelled with roman numerals from I to IV. I being the
closest to the planet and IV being the furthest. They are:
```
I Io
II Europa
III Ganymede
IV Callisto
```
Amazingly, all it takes is a pair of binoculars to see the Galilean moons,
so the results can be experimentally checked. (Note that at present, the
@@ -95,8 +97,9 @@ The positions of the moons should be correct for binoculars, but possibly
not if you have a telescope or if you are in the southern hemisphere. In
that case I suggest that to get the correct image you look at the screen
from inside the monitor whilst standing on your head. In case of
confusion, please consult the following chart (*):
confusion, please consult the following chart (\*):
```
N
^
|
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|
v
S
```
(*) Not to scale.
(\*) Not to scale.
### History
Galileo discovered the moons in January 1610.
"http://www-isds.jpl.nasa.gov/cwo/cwo_54ga/html/cd/galileo.htm" states
the following:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20001204212000/http://www-isds.jpl.nasa.gov/cwo/cwo_54ga/html/cd/galileo.htm>
states the following:
```
By early 1610, Galileo had further improved his telescope by
@@ -157,8 +161,14 @@ Thus we can plot Galileo's discoveries using the following three plots:
```
However we can go one better by seeing what Galileo would have seen if it
wasn't cloudy on the 9th. Try "./rince 0 `./dmy2jd 9.85 1 1610`" to see
what he was missing out on. I wonder what he'd have made of that!
wasn't cloudy on the 9th. Try:
```sh
./rince 0 `./dmy2jd 9.85 1 1610`
```
to see what he was missing out on. I wonder what he'd have made of that!
Galileo discovered the fourth moon a few days later.
@@ -171,9 +181,8 @@ IOCCC entry.
The year 4713BC was chosen by Joseph Justus Scaliger in the 16th Century,
so clearly this program has a long history :-) A more complete description
of the origins of Julian Days can be found at:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/millennium.html
of the origins of Julian Days can be found at
<https://web.archive.org/web/20001206152200/http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/millennium.html>.
### Assumptions