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i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to… | |
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I just want to calculate the current direction of tidal force from the observer… | |
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wikipedia: even the ancient babylonians knew how to use math to figure out what… | |
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@aeva you ping JPL for the measured coordinates and then newtonian physics to e… | |
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@aeva Heh Iāve run into this in the past myself as well, wikipediaās remark… | |
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@froztbyte @aeva but accepts contributions! | |
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@aeva omg @haskal knows how to do this | |
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@wgahnagl @haskal how do i dot(normalize(moon - earth), normalize(me - earth)) | |
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@aeva in case u just need the radial position, u can reference https://github.c… | |
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@aeva @wgahnagl so i did a masto bot that awoos on the full moon once by using … | |
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@aeva I usually just look up and if I donāt see the moon I subtract the sky I… | |
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@haskal @wgahnagl marvelous, ty ty | |
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@marado @froztbyte i think they usually want people who know what they're t… | |
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@aeva but the babylonias left it as an exercise for the reader š | |
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today's extremely basic astronomy question that i'm finding surprisingl… | |
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i feel like i'm so close to getting this working. i found a simple impleme… | |
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i think astronomy would be a lot simpler if ancient peoples didn't get so h… | |
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i just want to calculate my current ecliptic coordinates from my current geogra… | |
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i wonder to what extent astronomy is an insomnia friendly career still, or if i… | |
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now that I'm a bit further down this rabbit hole I'm realizing this isn… | |
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transp… | |
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between… | |
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time is fake, but as it happens space is also fake | |
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@aeva that's why when you multiply them together they're real. | |
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking ot… | |
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand… | |
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@aeva i believe all our physical models diverge from reality on a long enough t… | |
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@aeva a problem similar in complexity (likely even worse), weather prediction, … | |
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@aeva is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts fr… | |
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@halcy there's no closed form solution at all and from what i can tell the … | |
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@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie… | |
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@aeva @halcy i'd stick to euclidean coordinates. if you must center, use th… | |
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@lritter @halcy the problem with euclidean coordinates is while they are mathem… | |
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@aeva @halcy *throws the pythagorean theorem in the trash* | |
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@halcy i've got a feeling that this is what a self taught programmer feels … | |
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@aeva are you modeling real life or an approximation of it? | |
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@efi yes | |
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@aeva *bites u* | |
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@aeva I mean it's causing enough problems with gps they have dedicated stat… | |
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@aeva oh and the whole maps rescanning the whole city every now and then thing | |
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@pupxel i think they continuously re-map cities because of construction not pla… | |
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@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especiall… | |
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@ataylor @aeva I am reminded of part of my city's border: the "nobody … | |
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@rey @ataylor did it get bricked over and repurposed as a sewer? | |
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@aeva oh boy. I went down the rabbit hole of calculating star positions a few y… | |
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@jon_valdes my hope was that the moon's position relative to the earth woul… | |
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@aeva what I found is most methods for calculating these things are approximati… | |
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@jon_valdes oh that's great. I figure for my use case it only has to be mo… | |
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@aeva perhaps the easiest way would be to look at how other programs do it. I s… | |
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@jon_valdes i found this a few hours ago http://www.geoastro.de/elevazmoon/basi… | |
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@aeva @jon_valdes I'm trying to remember what program we use to generate lo… | |
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@aeva @jon_valdes alright I think we just use data from sdss and reproject it f… | |
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@dotstdy @aeva oh, nice!Word of caution about calculating these things on the G… | |
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@jon_valdes @aeva right, yeah I should also mention all that is done on the cpu… | |
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@dotstdy @aeva at least for star positioning f32 was barely enough for me... as… | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy blessedly I'm planning on doing this on the cpu, but D: | |
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@aeva @dotstdy if you want to see this in action, open this shadertoy on a few … | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy my laptop has a recent-ish Xe gpu | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy it's bizarre seeing my 10 year old telephone's mal… | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy though I guess the corner the intel case is cutting is whe… | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy would mollytime get a warmer, fuller sound if i switched t… | |
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@aeva @jon_valdes generally cpu trig is not so bad, but does vary between platf… | |
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@dotstdy @jon_valdes maybe I'll call the expensive exact soft sin oscillato… | |
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@aeva @dotstdy @jon_valdes start a new genre "deca-dance" | |
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@demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes well so far I can't tell the difference by ea… | |
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@demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes assuming I didn't screw anything up adapting … | |
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@aeva @demofox @dotstdy Yeah, I should have mentioned I'm not 100% sure of … | |
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@jon_valdes @demofox @dotstdy well I can tell from eyeballing it that it defini… | |
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@ataylor nothing a liberal application of hubris can't pretend to fix | |
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@aeva "We shall put this river in a box and then everything's fine!&qu… | |
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@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down. https://www.nist.gov/… | |
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@kevingranade they did eventually redefine the kilogram as something other than… | |
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@aeva wouldnāt it matter more for smaller cities? | |
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@luana I figure the smaller the city the lower the odds you end up with grossto… | |
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@aeva the not so short answer is sort of. Near exact conversion is tedious but … | |
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@siriusfox is this because real astronomers don't actually look at the sky … | |
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@aeva Isnāt there a day length difference needs accounting for? Sidereal vs s… | |
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@hypostase how would I know? | |
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@aeva The last time I looked at astronomical calculations was in the 80s. I don… | |
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@hypostase I'm just trying to calculate the vector from the center of the e… | |
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@aeva oh what a fun onehave you encountered the thing where every computation i… | |
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@ireneista yes | |
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@aeva "fun", isn't it | |
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@ireneista no | |
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@aeva that's how we feel, as wellwe have an entire computer algebra system … | |
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@aeva because designing that is a lot more fun than just writing the code | |
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@aeva a lot of things would be simpler if cults based on "perfect" sh… | |
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@SnoopJ we're still using spherical trig in astronomy today despite earth b… | |
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@aeva well, yea, because astronomy doesn't really give a shit what shape th… | |
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@SnoopJ @aeva everything is a sphere if you zoom out far enough | |
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@glyph @SnoopJ i'm tired of all the spherical milky way conspiracy theorists | |
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@aeva @glyph this is a really easy "whoa dude" win when doing physics… | |
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@SnoopJ @glyph sure. it's just the hairy ball theorem taken to its logical… | |
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@aeva on the other hand getting extremely horny for triangles is both funny and… | |
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@aeva now you've got me wondering if LIGO/Virgo has to deal with all the wi… | |
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@aeva @glyph I'll have to think about that for a bit but I love any excuse … | |
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@SnoopJ mood | |
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@aeva On cosmology sequence breaks: Terence Tao noted that an ancient Greek hel… | |
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@rf they were so close lol | |
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@aeva @demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes There's lots of versions of CPU sin/cos… | |
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@aeva @demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes Also, if you care about precision at all, d… | |
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@TomF @demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes I already do the range reduction. I learne… | |
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@aeva @lritter excuse me this is Mannheim erasure | |
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@halcy @aeva this grid doesn't impress new yorkers or san franciscans in th… | |
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@aeva @lritter @halcy | |
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@aeva @halcy It's a n>3 body problem alright. The Moon is large enough a… | |
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@aeva āimagine a spherical cow, uh, planetā | |
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@hypostase @aeva yeah, that's a fun one. If you look at the Earth's rot… | |
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@aeva @dotstdy Yup! I was using trig to calculate screen positions for the star… | |
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy D: | |
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@aeva i have copies of the explanatory supplement to the astronomical almanac i… | |
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@fanf I just put in an order for the 2025 Astronomical Almanac - what is this a… | |
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@aeva https://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/exp_supp roughly speaking it explai… | |
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@fanf that sounds useful. looks like it is out of print though? | |
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@aeva i got my copies from second hand mailorder bookshops, reasonably affordab… | |
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@aeva in case you havenāt found it already, jpl have loads of software for th… | |
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@aeva plate tectonics causes a lot of problems for geodesy in new zealand š± … |