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So I'm in need of some more help for my astronomy class again. My professor wants us to write a program that outputs a table with the distance of Mars from the sun (r) and it's true anomaly. The problem is that i need to compute the Eccentric Anomaly (E) from the Mean Anomaly (M). Kepler's...

Hi everyone, new member here. Anyway, for my astronomy class my professor wants us to calculate the zone time the center of the sun sets on the winter solstice, at 40 degrees north latitude, and I'm a bit stuck. I know on the winter solstice, the declination of the sun is -23.5 degrees and the...