<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> this seemed fine until the last sentence</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> just be careful not to break your affiliate links</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea" class="u-url mention">@<span>0xabad1dea</span></a></span> it&#39;s used in the persian calendar (currently defined by Iran)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eggrobin" class="u-url mention">@<span>eggrobin</span></a></span> thanks!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eggrobin" class="u-url mention">@<span>eggrobin</span></a></span> my guess is this is VSOP87 or a newer model of the same ilk. it&#39;s used to calculate the position of the sun in the sky at a given time using a series of summed periodic functions to correct for the multibody gravitational forces that lead to variations from the nominal (Kepler) orbital paths. my wife&#39;s been doing similar things for the magellanic clusters in astropy recently.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://galaxians.garden/users/hexylena" class="u-url mention">@<span>hexylena</span></a></span> no show next time?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> my life experience already lets me do that</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> 71998.4403… strongly resembles these coordinates of New York City from a solar position calculator, so I suspect this is a list of city coordinates for calculating things like sunrise time</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eggrobin" class="u-url mention">@<span>eggrobin</span></a></span> maybe I&#39;m stating something too trivial, but zm8/zm7 is 180°/pi, so whatever comes before the &quot;*zm8/zm7&quot; part is in degrees...</p>