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VStar is a visualisation and analysis tool for variable star data brought to you by AAVSO
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Allow times to be transformed between JD and BJD-TDB #286

Closed dbenn closed 3 months ago

dbenn commented 2 years ago

@BradWalter asked:

Is a converter back and forth between JD and BJD-TDB on the to do list? HJD is increasingly replaced by BJD-TDB because it is truly the stationary reference frame in our solar system and used exactly evenly spaced time increments without leap seconds or relativistic variations caused by movement and acceleration of the reference frame. For example, all exoplanet timing is done in BJD-TDB and so is most WD pulsation timing. HJD is only being used where historical consistency is important but one can argue that it would be better to convert the historical data to BJD-TDB rather than continue collecting data using that time base.

dbenn commented 2 years ago

This could be an observation transformer plugin as I've commented for the HJD plugin here: #84

dbenn commented 3 months ago

Merged