Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgianmeteorologist and amateurastronomer specializing incelestial mechanics,spherical astronomy, and mathematical astronomy.^[1][2]

Meeus studied mathematics at theUniversity of Leuven inBelgium, where he received the Degree ofLicentiate in 1953. From then until his retirement in 1993, he was ameteorologist atBrussels Airport.^[2]

In 1986, he won theAmateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.^[3] Themain belt asteroid2213 Meeus was named after him by theInternational 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) ofCanon of Solar Eclipses (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966)
• co-author (withFrederick Pilcher) ofTables 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 (withHermann Mucke) ofCanon of Lunar Eclipses: -2000 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1979)Bibcode:1979cle..book.....M
• co-author (with Hermann Mucke) ofCanon 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 (withFred Espenak) ofFive Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (October 2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006^[4]
• co-author (with Fred Espenak) ofFive Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (January 2009), NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009^[5]

• Naughter Software implementation ofAstronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 inC++
• Navigation Spreadsheets implementation ofAstronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 inMicrosoft Excel forcelestial 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.

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