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Basic Information on planets
Task: planets
Purpose: Print ephemerides of planets and the Sun.
Categories: utility
PLANETS is a MIRIAD task to report some parameters on solar system
objects.
Key: source
This can be "sun" or the name of a major planet (excluding the Earth).
No default.
Key: epoch
The time (UTC) for which information is required, in standard
Miriad time format. No default.
Key: telescop
The name of an observatory used in computing rise and set times.
The default is not to compute these. See telepar for a list of
observatories that Miriad knows about.