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Celestial Mechanics in a Nutshell (CMiaNS) — Marc van der Sluys

This document is work in progress. I intend it to evolve into a rich source of information for those who want to compute positions of celestial objects or find events in the night sky. Until that time, the bits of text I have gathered together form a poor source, but may be useful for some people already.

The purpose of this document, with the working title Celestial mechanics in a nutshell or CMiaNS, is to provide the interested reader with the equations, explanations and background that are needed to compute celestial events, understand why these equations are used and allow the reader to track where (in the literature) they came from. For example, in the appendix we derive the default rotations for 2D and 3D rotations, and from there the coordinate transformations between the most common coordinate systems.

This is a living document. You can find the latest version on this page. Please check the date on the first page of your document. This document may well contain errors. Please report them through the section Contact below.

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CMiaNS: Celestial Mechanics in a Nutshell: Last update: Wed 7 Jun 2023.

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