Book Project: Discovering Asteroids

[Ags]

Thanks for the offer, I will think about it, maybe there are parts I can open up. By the way, most of the code is in Java, although I use Python to get data dumps from NASA Horizons.

The books are rendered with Apache FOP, a bit of a dinosaur, but it works!

[Ags]

I made a few more improvements to the speed and got it 10x faster again. Still too slow to run the process every time the book builds so it will be done as a separate process - one more thing to remember when I come back to the book next year. I added some filters: lunar conjunctions are no longer covered due to parallax issues, and I have chosen to only show events with an elongation of at least 70 degrees (which of course also excludes Venus and Mercury events from the results). Here are the updated events for the remainder of this month, including the interesting conjunction of Pallas and T CrB:

Edited Thursday at 06:04 by Ags