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BASIC Programs from Sky & Telescope| BASIC Programs from Sky & Telescope Magazine | ||
| File Name | Issue | Brief Description |
| RONCHI.BAS | Apr 91, p. 416 |
Ronchi test simulation |
| RAINBOW.BAS | Feb 91, p. 199 |
Graphic simulation of a rainbow |
| SPIRAL.BAS | Dec 90, p. 654 |
Modeling spiral galaxies |
| MARS.BAS | Sep 90, p. 296 |
Physical ephemeris of Mars |
| MARCHE.BAS | Jul 90, p. 71 |
Astrometric positions of a comet or asteroid |
| MALLAM.BAS | May 90, p. 543 |
Precession of a satellite's orbit |
| ORIGAM.BAS | Apr 90, p. 424 |
Make a paper model of a comet orbit |
| MIRROR.BAS | Feb 90, p. 195 |
Foucault mirror test analysis |
| HARTLEY.BAS | Jan 90, p. 86 |
Globe- and grid-drawing program (Macintosh) |
| JMERID.BAS | Dec 89, p. 640 |
Jupiter's central meridian for any date/time |
| LIMMAG.BAS | Nov 89, p. 522 |
Limiting magnitude of a telescope |
| GOSS.BAS | Oct 89, p. 410 |
Light curves of eclipsing binaries |
| SHOWER.BAS | Aug 89, p. 195 |
Dates of meteor showers |
| SINE.BAS | Aug 89, p. 139 |
Demonstration of chaotic behavior |
| MOONUP.BAS | Jul 89, p. 78 |
Compute moonrise-moonset times for any place |
| GALISA.BAS | Jun 89, p. 650 |
Plot Galilean moons of Jupiter (Apple II) |
| SPACE.BAS | May 89, p. 531 |
Space motion of a star |
| CHART.BAS | Apr 89, p. 420 |
Find atlas charts for any celestial coordinates |
| REFR1.BAS | Mar 89, p. 311 |
Compute atmospheric refraction |
| TAKI.BAS | Feb 89, p. 194 |
How to aim an alt-az (Dobsonian) telescope |
| FRACTS.BAS | Jan 89, p. 80 |
Represent a decimal as a continued fraction |
| PERIOD.BAS | Sep 88, p. 288 |
Period search by Fourier transform |
| LUNAR.BAS | Jun 88, p. 640 |
Compute dates of lunar eclipses |
| SHADOW.BAS | Apr 88, p. 417 |
Modeling mountain shadows |
| CIRCLE.BAS | Mar 88, p. 304 |
Make setting circles and scales on a printer |
| DIAL.BAS | Dec 87, p. 646 |
Design a vertical sundial |
| PERIAP.BAS | Nov 87, p. 527 |
Compute lunar apogee and perigee |
| STEREO.BAS | Oct 87, p. 407 |
Plot stars in stereographic projection |
| DIFPAT.BAS | Sep 87, p. 294 |
Compute and display diffraction patterns |
| BINARY.BAS | Jul 87, p. 71 |
Orbital ephemeris of a binary star |
| CLOCK.BAS | May 87, p. 535 |
Add Moon to a real-time clock (Apple II) |
| ORBITS.BAS | May 87, p. 535 |
Positions in near-parabolic orbits |
| EXTINC.BAS | Apr 87, p. 426 |
Compute extinction of starlight |
| PATH.BAS | Feb 87, p. 196 |
Interpolate comet positions |
