TITLE

heavens-above-mag - Get magnitudes from Heavens Above

SYNOPSIS

heavens-above-mag 25544
heavens-above-mag --help
heavens-above-mag --version

OPTIONS

--help

This option displays the documentation for this script. The script then exits.

--open

If this Boolean option is asserted, a web browser is spawned, displaying the Heavens-Above web page of the OIDs specified. You cannot specify file names if you specify this option.

--version

This option displays the version of this script. The script then exits.

DETAILS

This Perl script parses intrinsic magnitude data out of Heavens Above data. You can specify either an OID (which is fetched) or a file name (which is read) or a mixture of the two.

Heavens Above defines intrinsic magnitude as the magnitude at a range of 1000km, and 50% illuminated.

AUTHOR

Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2021 by Thomas R. Wyant, III

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the Artistic License 1.0 at https://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-10.html, and/or the Gnu GPL at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.