/* Correction for light time from object to earth * including gravitational retardation due to the Sun. * AA page B36. */ #include "kep.h" int lightt( elemnt, q, e ) double e[], q[]; /* rectangular position vectors */ struct orbit *elemnt; /* orbital elements of object q */ { double p[3], p0[3], ptemp[3]; double P, Q, E, t, x, y; int i, k; /* save initial q-e vector for display */ for( i=0; i<3; i++ ) { p0[i] = q[i] - e[i]; } E = 0.0; for( i=0; i<3; i++ ) E += e[i]*e[i]; E = sqrt(E); for( k=0; k<2; k++ ) { P = 0.0; Q = 0.0; for( i=0; i<3; i++ ) { y = q[i]; x = y - e[i]; p[i] = x; Q += y * y; P += x * x; } P = sqrt(P); Q = sqrt(Q); /* Note the following blows up if object equals sun. */ t = (P + 1.97e-8 * log( (E+P+Q)/(E-P+Q) ) )/173.1446327; kepler( TDT-t, elemnt, q, ptemp ); } if( prtflg ) printf( "light time %.4fm, ", 1440.0*t ); /* Final object-earth vector and the amount by which it changed. */ for( i=0; i<3; i++ ) { x = q[i] - e[i]; p[i] = x; dp[i] = x - p0[i]; } showcor( "aberration", p0, dp ); /* Calculate dRA/dt and dDec/dt. * The desired correction of apparent coordinates is relative * to the equinox of date, but the coordinates here are * for J2000. This introduces a slight error. * * Estimate object-earth vector t days ago. We have * p(?) = q(J-t) - e(J), and must adjust to * p(J-t) = q(J-t) - e(J-t) = q(J-t) - (e(J) - Vearth * t) * = p(?) + Vearth * t. */ velearth(TDT); for( i=0; i<3; i++ ) p[i] += vearth[i]*t; deltap( p, p0, &dradt, &ddecdt ); /* see dms.c */ dradt /= t; ddecdt /= t; return(0); }