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#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# This script takes as command-line input a time (suitable for
# Date::Manip and probably quoted), a right ascension (in _degrees_) and
# declination (also in degrees) and a bunch of TLE data (either on
# standard in or in files named on the command line) and computes the
# identity of the object closest to the given position at the given
# time, as seen from a pre-programmed location. If run with less than 3
# arguments you get a help message.

use 5.006002;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Astro::Coord::ECI;
use Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE;
use Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE::Set;
use Astro::Coord::ECI::Utils qw{ deg2rad rad2deg :time };

use Date::Manip;
use Getopt::Long 2.33;
use Pod::Usage;
use POSIX qw{strftime};

our $VERSION = '0.093';

my %opt;

Getopt::Long::Configure( 'pass_through' );  # Numbers may be negative
GetOptions( \%opt,
    help => sub { pod2usage( { -verbose => 2 } ) },
) and @ARGV > 3 or pod2usage( { -verbose => 0 } );

my $station = Astro::Coord::ECI->new(
    name => 'Parliament House, Canberra ACT, Australia',
)->geodetic(
    deg2rad(-35.308232),	# Latitude in radians
    deg2rad(149.124495),	# Longitude in radians
    0.603,			# Elevation above sea level in kilometers
);

my $time = UnixDate($ARGV[0], '%s')
    or die "Invalid date/time '$ARGV[0]'\n";
my (undef, $ra, $dec) = splice(@ARGV, 0, 3);

# We arbitrarily set the distance to 10 parsecs to minimize the parallax
# between the (unknown but much closer) actual location as observed from
# the center of the Earth (which is what we set with the equatorial()
# method) and the observed location from the observing station on the
# surface of the Earth.

my $target = Astro::Coord::ECI->new()->equatorial(
    deg2rad($ra),
    deg2rad($dec),
    30.8568e13,
    $time,
);

# We slurp all the files, parse their content into
# Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE objects, and aggregate all objects with the
# same OID into a single Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE::Set object. The
# aggregation step is unnecessary if your input is known to contain only
# one TLE data set for each OID.

local $/ = undef;
my @tle = Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE::Set->aggregate(
    Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE->parse( { station => $station }, <>));

my @closest;	# Closest bodies
my $separation;	# Separation of closest body

foreach my $body (@tle) {
    eval {$body->universal($time); 1;} or do {
	warn $@;
	next;
    };
    my $angle = $station->angle($body, $target);
    if (!defined $separation) {
	$separation = $angle;
	@closest = ($body);
    } elsif ($angle == $separation) {
	push @closest, $body;
    } elsif ($angle < $separation) {
	$separation = $angle;
	@closest = ($body);
    }
}

@closest or die "No bodies found. Did you look in the library?\n";
my $fmt = "%6s  %6.2f  %6.2f  %6.2f\n";
foreach my $body (@closest) {
    my ( $ra, $dec ) = $body->equatorial_apparent();
    printf $fmt, $body->get('id'), rad2deg($ra), rad2deg($dec),
	rad2deg($separation);
}

__END__

=head1 TITLE

closest - Find body closest to given position at given time

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 closest 'today noon' 53 -25 foo.tle
 closest -help
 closest -version

=head1 OPTIONS

=head2 -help

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

=head2 -version

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

=head1 DETAILS

This Perl script finds the orbiting body closest to the given position
at the given time as seen from a pre-programmed location: Parliament
House, Canberra ACT, Australia.

The arguments are the desired time (in a format suitable for
Date::Manip), the right ascension (in decimal degrees, not hours), the
declination (also in decimal degrees), and the names of one or more
files containing satellite TLE orbital element sets.

The output is the OID of the closest body at the given time, and its
right ascension, declination, and angular separation from the given
position in degrees, as seen from the observing station.

=head1 AUTHOR

Thomas R. Wyant, III F<wyant at cpan dot org>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012-2018 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 full text
of the licenses in the directory LICENSES.

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.

=cut

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