HANSÓMETRO: PROGRAMA LIBRE PARA CÓMPUTO DE ARQUEOASTRONOMÍA EN EXCEL
HANSÓMETRO: FREE SOFTWARE FOR ARCHAEOASTRONOMY COMPUTING IN EXCEL

Author(s): Hans Martz de la Vega, Ricardo Moyano Vasconcellos, Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, Miguel Pérez Negrete
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: free software; archaeoastronomy; calendars of the horizon; instrumental hypothesis; positional astronomy
Summary/Abstract: We are convinced that there are some possibilities in which archaeoastronomy can broaden its development horizons. In past decades, measurement calculations took considerable time for the researcher. Now it takes only minutes since we have given ourselves the task of developing a program for archaeoastronomy called Hansometro. On this occasion, we present its first part that corresponds to solar measurements. For a specific date and location, each measured structure necessitates using the Sun to obtain azimuth and declination values for the height of the local horizon. When necessary, it also gives the values of lunar declinations (computing the parallax). The program renders the solar and lunar data for the whole year. The Hansometro is free software: with public access on the Internet and open to new elements in the calculus, applicable to the fieldwork in positional astronomy.

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