Defining the astronomical source of interest, or accessing properties thereof. More...

Classes
class	supernovas::CatalogEntry
	Defines the astrometric parameters of a sidereal source, such as a star, a Galactic cloud, a distant galaxy, or a quasar. More...
class	supernovas::CatalogSource
	A sidereal source, defined by its catalog coordinates and other catalog parameters. More...
class	supernovas::EphemerisSource
	A Solar-system source, whose positions / velocities are provided from ephemeris data. More...
class	supernovas::OrbitalSource
	A Solar-system source, whose position and velocity can be calculated using Keplerian orbital elements. More...
class	supernovas::Planet
	A major planet (including Pluto), or the Sun and the Moon, the Solar-System Barycenter (SSB), the Earth-Moon Barycenter (EMB), and the Pluto-system barycenter. More...
class	supernovas::SolarSystemSource
	An abstract class of a source in the Solar-system. More...
class	supernovas::Source
	An abstract astronomical source, or target of observation. More...

Macros
#define	SIZE_OF_CAT_NAME 6
	Maximum maximum bytes stored for catalog IDs including string termination.
#define	SIZE_OF_OBJ_NAME 50
	Maximum number of bytes stored for object names including string termination.

Functions
CatalogSource	supernovas::CatalogEntry::to_source () const
	Returns a new catalog source based created from this catalog entry.
OrbitalSource	supernovas::Orbital::to_source (const std::string &name) const
	Returns a new orbital source from this orbital and with the specified name and number designations.

Detailed Description

Defining the astronomical source of interest, or accessing properties thereof.

A source may be a sidereal catalog source, such as as star, molecular cloud or a distant galaxy, or else it may be a Solar-system body, such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets or near-Earth objects (NEOs). Solar-system sources may have positions and velocities provided through ephemeris data (such as the NASA JPL planetary on other ephemeris files), or else via orbital models (such as published by the IAU Minor Planet Center [MPC]).