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From: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Planetary position software: summary of replies.
Summary: ephem looks useful
Message-ID: <341@memex.co.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 89 15:14:16 GMT
Reply-To: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve)
Organization: Memex Ltd., East Kilbride, Scotland
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Here is a summary of the replies to my request for planetary position
software a few weeks ago.

The clear winner is ephem, a program written by Elwood Downey.
It doesn't do any astrology, but then I was not really expecting that from
sci.* newsgroups. The author mailed me, and coincidently the latest version
just appeared in comp.sources.misc.

Another program mentioned was Voyager, for the Mac, authors/agents unknown.

One specifically astrological program mentioned was BlueStar, for which I
do not yet know the source, but which has the drawback that it is commercial
and costs about $500.

Other suggestions were any decent public domain/shareware PC software catalog
and the PD1:<MSDOS.EDUCATION> directory on simtel.army.mil. I can't ftp to
anywhere so I can't vouch for this last one.

Thank you, normal service will now be resumed ...

		Peter Ilieve		peter@memex.co.uk