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package org.madore.ephem;

public final class Precession {

    // The following angles are in arcseconds, argument is in Julian centuries since J2000.
    public static final double epsilon0 = 84381.406;
    public static Comput.Polynomial psi
	= new Comput.Polynomial(0, 5038.481507, -1.0790069, -0.00114045, 0.000132851, -0.0000000951); 
    public static Comput.Polynomial omega
	= new Comput.Polynomial(epsilon0, -0.025754, 0.0512623, -0.00772503, -0.000000467, 0.0000003337);
    public static Comput.Polynomial chi
	= new Comput.Polynomial(0, 10.556403, -2.3814292, -0.00121197, 0.000170663, -0.0000000560);
    public static Comput.Polynomial epsilon
	= new Comput.Polynomial(epsilon0, -46.836769, -0.0001831, 0.00200340, -0.000000576, -0.0000000434);

    public static Frames.RotationMatrix matrix(double t) {
	Frames.RotationMatrix mat1 = Frames.RotationMatrix.rotx(epsilon0*Comput.arcsecond);
	Frames.RotationMatrix mat2 = Frames.RotationMatrix.rotz(-psi.v(t)*Comput.arcsecond).apply(mat1);
	Frames.RotationMatrix mat3 = Frames.RotationMatrix.rotx(-omega.v(t)*Comput.arcsecond).apply(mat2);
	Frames.RotationMatrix mat4 = Frames.RotationMatrix.rotz(chi.v(t)*Comput.arcsecond).apply(mat3);
	return mat4;
    }

}