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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

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Reference · Julian dates (and the julian package's functions), calendars, time scales, sidereal time and Mars time

modifiedJulianDatefunction

The modified Julian date: the Julian date less 2,400,000.5, so a day starts at midnight and the numbers are shorter.

Import it

import { modifiedJulianDate } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/time";

Definition

function modifiedJulianDate(when: When): number

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
whenWhen

A Date or milliseconds since 1970.

Returns

number

The modified Julian date.

Examples

import { modifiedJulianDate } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/time";

console.log(modifiedJulianDate(Date.UTC(2000, 0, 1)));
51544

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.