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A Computer Program to Calculate First Order Extinction Coefficients

Volume 13 number 1 (1984)

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Murray K. Kaitting

Abstract

A description is given of a computer program written in Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II Plus. It is designed to calculate the first order extinction K' by least-squares and to display the observations as function of air mass.