Astro:...upiter(3pm)

💜 Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter — bestie, it's Jupiter

okay so real talk: this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, and it's all about Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter. That's the Jupiter module. Yes, the big one. The gas giant. The main character of the solar system (sorry Saturn, the rings are cute but the Great Red Spot ate 💅).

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✨ NAME ✨

Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter — literally just Jupiter. That's the whole vibe. 🪐

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's how you actually use it, copy-paste ready, no gatekeeping:

use Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter;
my $planet = Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter->new();
my @geo = $planet->position($t); # apparent geocentric ecliptical coordinates

so you load it, you new() it into existence, and then you ask it where it is — and @geo comes back holding the apparent geocentric ecliptical coordinates. slay. that comment in the code is doing heavy lifting and we respect it 🫶

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💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

this is a child class of Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet, and its whole entire job — its purpose, its calling, its moment — is calculating Jupiter position. that's it. that's the module. iconic honestly, knowing exactly what you're about 😌

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👑 METHODS 👑

⭐ Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet::Jupiter->new

the constructor. it makes a new object. that's the tea 🎀

⭐ $self->heliocentric($t)

ngl this one doesn't explain itself here — the docs say see the description in Astro::Montenbruck::Ephemeris::Planet. so go read the parent class bestie, it's got the lore 📖✨

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Sergey Krushinsky, "<krushi at cpan.org>" — the person who made this happen. give them their flowers 💐👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

Copyright (C) 2009-2022 by Sergey Krushinsky

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so yeah — free software, remix and redistribute away, just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself. no cap, that's a good deal 🤝

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fr fr everything above matters: the constructor, the heliocentric($t) pointer to the parent class, the geocentric ecliptical coordinates, the copyright years 2009-2022, and the Perl-itself licensing. the vibe is new, the facts are not 💀

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okay bye bestie, go calculate some Jupiter positions, and remember: this page came from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, running under perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15 — so if you're reading this from the future, hi, hope the ephemeris is still accurate 🌟🪐💖