R: Julian-Day number to Julian century

julianCenturyAnomaly {oce} | R Documentation

## Julian-Day number to Julian century

### Description

Convert a Julian-Day number to a time in julian centuries since noon on January 1, 1900. The method follows Meese (1982 equation 15.1). The example reproduces the example provided by Meeuse (1982 example 15.a), with fractional error 3e-8.

### Usage

    julianCenturyAnomaly(jd)

### Arguments

`jd` | a julian day number, e.g. as given by `julianDay`.

### Value

Julian century since noon on January 1, 1900.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### References

Meeus, Jean, 1982. Astronomical formulae for Calculators. Willmann-Bell. Richmond VA, USA. 201 pages

### See Also

Other things related to astronomy: `eclipticalToEquatorial`, `equatorialToLocalHorizontal`, `julianDay`, `moonAngle`, `siderealTime`, `sunAngle`

Other things related to time: `ctimeToSeconds`, `julianDay`, `numberAsHMS`, `numberAsPOSIXct`, `secondsToCtime`, `unabbreviateYear`

### Examples

    t <- ISOdatetime(1978, 11, 13, 4, 35, 0, tz="UTC")
    jca <- julianCenturyAnomaly(julianDay(t))
    cat(format(t), "is Julian Century anomaly", format(jca, digits=8), "\n")

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