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Miriade Ephemeris Generator

Plugins

We will find in this page some scripts and programs written in various languages that you can download to help you to implement the methods of the Miriade Web service in your own application. If you develop a client or improve the code of a client, we would be grateful to you to send it to us to share it with the community of the Miriade users. For that, please document your code so that it is comprehensible, and send it to us by email with all information which you will consider useful.
 Miriade Plugins 
1. JAVA

1. JAVA ^
This plugin is intended to be used as an Aladin plugin. It allows the computation of the celestial coordinates and the apparent physical aspect of the solar system objects (SSO). The results are displayed in Aladin as marks in a dedicated stack which show the position of the SSO on the celestial sphere (positional ephemeris) or as a FITS image which show the simulated aspect of the SSO as seen from the observer.
Application:
Computation of the celestial coordinates and the apparent physical aspect of the solar system objects
Installation
  1. Download the plugin class or jarfile
  2. Copy it into your dedicated Aladin plugin directory
    ($HOME/.aladin/Plugins or C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\.aladin\Plugins)
  3. Launch Aladin
  4. Open the "Plugin controller" (Menu Tool -> Plugins in Aladin)
or
  1. Download the plugin class or jarfile
  2. Launch Aladin
  3. Open the "Plugin controller" (Menu Tool -> Plugins in Aladin)
  4. Drag and drop the plugin class/jar file directly from your OS desktop (Windows) into the Aladin plugin list
Usage:
Once it is installed, open the menu Tool -> Plugins -> Plugins controler -> ssoEphemerisCalculator and start it, or launch it directly from the Tool -> Plugins menu.
Download:
Last compiled archive (.jar) Jar
You can also download the plugins in the Aladin Plugin Repository