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4 May 2024 17:43:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating planet rotations  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 20 Sep 2018 20:16:56
Message: <5ba43878$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/15/2018 1:07 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> I'm trying to adapt the following PDF to POV-Ray code for my 
> planetarium/orrery.
> 
> https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/txt/aprx_pos_planets.pdf
> 

In Step 6 of that PDF, it gives an equation on how to convert between 
ecliptic coordinates and J2000 coordinates.

What is the inverse of that equation, and how do I change it into a 
series of `rotate` commands instead?

Thanks.



Mike


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