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Computing the solar vector

Manuel Blanco,D. Alarcón-Padilla,T. López-Moratalla,MartÍn Lara-Coira

2001 · DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(00)00156-0
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TLDR

A new algorithm, developed at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria, which combines these two characteristics of accuracy and simplicity, is presented and allows of the true solar vector to be determined with an accuracy of 0.5 minutes of arc for the period 1999–2015.