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Eclipse Calculator 1.0.4
This is an application to compute and simulateastronomical events. A tool for astronomy lovers that allows toknow in a simple way the general and local circumstances for solarand lunar eclipses and planetary transits.Which futur eclipses will be visible from my location? And fromthe antipodes? What they will be like? How long will they last? Andin the past, how many eclipses have there been? All these and manyother questions about both, eclipses and planetary transits, areanswered with this tool. Now, all the information about theseevents in your mobile thanks to this application.This applicaction has the support of the Generalitat deCatalunya, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya andUniversitat de Barcelona.Characteristics:* Access to data of all solar and lunar eclipses and planetarytransits between 1900 and 2100.* Computation of general circumstances of the phenomenon,including global visibility maps.* Computation of the local circumstances of the phenomenon forany place in the world (beginning, end, duration, altitude of theSun or Moon above the horizon, ...)* Simulation of the phenomenon from your observationalpoint.* Choice of observation place from a data base, manually or fromthe GPS coordinates.* Available in English, Catalan and Spanish.
