palEtrms

Compute the E-terms vector

Description:

Computes the E-terms (elliptic component of annual aberration) vector.

Note the use of the J2000 aberration constant (20.49552 arcsec). This is a reflection of the fact that the E-terms embodied in existing star catalogues were computed from a variety of aberration constants. Rather than adopting one of the old constants the latest value is used here.

Invocation

void palEtrms ( double ep, double ev[3] );

Arguments

ep = double (Given)
Besselian epoch
ev = double [3] (Returned)
E-terms as (dx,dy,dz)

See also