INPOP planetary ephemerides

A class (celestial.INPOP) for downloading the INPOP ephemerides files, and calculating Solar System ephemerides.

% INPOP - A container and calculator class for INPOP ephemeris data

% INPOP is a Solar System ephermeris tables distributed by: IMCCE.

% This class can retrieve, store and use the INPOP ephemeris data

% (https://www.imcce.fr/inpop).

% This class can be use to calculate the positions and velocities

% of the main Solar System objects.

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% This class is part of AstroPack/MAATv2 available from:

% https://github.com/EranOfek/AstroPack

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% NOTE: Bug fixes and updates are available only in the AstroPack version!

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% Credit : Eran Ofek

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% Examples:

% % Two methods to download the INPOP data files:

% I=Installer; I.install('INPOP'); % using AstroPack

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% celestial.INPOP.download

% % Generate MAT files for faster first access

% IP.convertAscii2mat

% IP=celestial.INPOP % create an INPOP object

% IP.populateTables('all'); % load all planets / 100 years

% IP.Constant % get all INPOP constants

% JD=[2414106.00,2451545]';

% Pos = IP.getPos('Ear',JD); % Get Eath Barycentric position, Equatorial J2000