Acknowledgements

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+SLALIB is descended from a package of routines written +for the AAO 16-bit minicomputers +in the mid-1970s. The coming of the VAX +allowed a much more comprehensive and thorough package +to be designed for Starlink, especially important +at a time when the adoption +of the IAU 1976 resolutions meant that astronomers +would have to cope with a mixture of reference frames, +timescales and nomenclature. +

+Much of the preparatory work on SLALIB was done by +Althea Wilkinson of Manchester University. +During its development, +Andrew Murray, +Catherine Hohenkerk, +Andrew Sinclair, +Bernard Yallop +and +Brian Emerson of Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office were consulted +on many occasions; their advice was indispensable. +I am especially grateful to +Catherine Hohenkerk +for supplying preprints of papers, and test data. A number of +enhancements to SLALIB were at the suggestion of +Russell Owen, University of Washington, +the late Phil Hill, St Andrews University, +Bill Vacca, JILA, Boulder and +Ron Maddalena, NRAO. +Mark Calabretta, CSIRO Radiophysics, Sydney supplied changes to suit Convex. +I am indebted to Derek Jones (RGO) for introducing me to the +``universal variables'' method of calculating orbits. +

+The first C version of SLALIB was a hand-coded transcription +of the Starlink Fortran version carried out by +Steve Eaton (University of Leeds) in the course of +MSc work. This was later +enhanced by John Straede (AAO) and Martin Shepherd (Caltech). +The current C SLALIB is a complete rewrite by the present author and +includes a comprehensive validation suite. +Additional comments on the C version came from Bob Payne (NRAO) and +Jeremy Bailey (AAO). +

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+SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library
Starlink User Note 67
P. T. Wallace
12 October 1999
E-mail:ptw@star.rl.ac.uk +

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