Jean Meeus

In 1986, he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.^[3] The main belt asteroid 2213 Meeus was named after him by the International Astronomical Union in 1981 for his contributions to the field.^[1][2]

• Tables of Moon and Sun (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1962)
• Syzygies Tables (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1963)
• co-author (with Carl C. Grosjean & Willy Vanderleen) of Canon of Solar Eclipses (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966)
• co-author (with Frederick Pilcher) of Tables of Minor Planets (1973)
• Astronomical Formulae for Calculators (1979) [1st ed.]
  • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1982), 2nd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, ISBN 0-943396-01-8
  • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1985), 3rd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, ISBN 0-943396-09-3
  • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1988), 4th ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, ISBN 0-943396-22-0
  • Astronomical Formulas for Microcalculators (1988) (Russian Edition, Moscow, "Mir", 1988)
• co-author (with Hermann Mucke) of Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -2000 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1979) Bibcode:1979cle..book.....M
• co-author (with Hermann Mucke) of Canon of Solar Eclipses -2003 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1983)
• Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1983) ISBN 0-943396-02-6
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1995), 2nd ed., ISBN 0-943396-45-X
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (2016), 3rd ed., ISBN 1-942675-03-8
• Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200 (1989) ISBN 0-943396-21-2
• Transits (1989)
• Astronomical Algorithms (1991), 1st ed., ISBN 0-943396-35-2
  • Astronomical Algorithms (1998), 2nd ed., ISBN 0-943396-61-1
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (1997) ISBN 0-943396-51-4
• More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (2002) ISBN 0-943396-74-3
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III (2004) ISBN 0-943396-81-6
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV (2007) ISBN 978-0-943396-87-3
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V (2009) ISBN 978-0-943396-92-7
• co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (October 2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006^[4]
• co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (January 2009), NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009^[5]

• Naughter Software implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998inC++
• Navigation Spreadsheets implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998inMicrosoft Excel for celestial navigation purposes.
• PyMeeus is a Python implementation of the astronomical algorithms described in the classical book “Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Edition, Willmann-Bell Inc. (1998)” by Jean Meeus.