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Starpos   
Description A program written by J. Acosta and E. Pérez to plot altitude versus time for a list of objects and for a given night.
Version installed Ubuntu 22.04: Feb 2004 (Fortran code to compute Moon's position has been revised)
Usage At the command prompt, type:
starpos 
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Manuals and
Documentation
Not available - its use is very simple and does not require any manual or help page.
SIE contact Nicola Caon – – tel: 5383 – office: 1.124
Additional Info If you read the object list from a file, its format is:

Object1
HH.MMSS DD.PPSS
Object2
HH.MMSS DD.PPSS
...

A similar HTML-based utility is STARALT, developed at the ING.