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Julian Date

The Julian date can be found for a specified calendar date from the Astronomical Almanac. Modified Julian date (MJD) is defined as

  MJD = Julian date - 2,400,000.5
  
The MJD at the start of observation can be found using the HEADER application for any dataset.

The MJD of 1st January 1972 is 41317.0



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