* Stars (was: CD-ROM music)
@ 1995-09-20 8:34 Amos
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From: Amos @ 1995-09-20 8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
dmr@plan9.ATt.COM writes:
>Speaking of play-value, has anyone gotten themselves far enough
>out of VGA hell to try the sky catalog or the geographic/road
>databases?
Here's a filter to "astro"'s output which uses "plot" to draw a
picture of the sky; now all we need is to add that to "scat"'s output,
or teach "astro" to present current star positions (it does read the
star catalog to check for occultations, but doesn't present position
info).
#!/bin/rc
# << doesn't work inside {}
{
echo 'o
ra -90 -90 90 90
e
ci 0 0 90
li -90 0 90 0
li 0 -90 0 90
m 0 -88
t \CS
m 0 88
t \CN
m -88 0
t \CE
m 88 0
t \CW
'
astro -p $* |
awk 'NR>1{
if(NF==6) { name=$1; a=$4; e=$5 }
else { name=$2; a=$5; e=$6 }
if(e >=0) {
a = a*3.14159/180
print "m", (e-90)*sin(a), (90-e)*cos(a)
print "t *" name
}
}
END {print "cl"}'
} |
plot
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