Thread: Conversion of Coordinates to RA and Dec
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Old 14-12-2018, 05:45 PM
kens (Ken)
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Declination is the arcsin of z
RA is the arctan of y/x.
Use atan2 or its equivalent to avoid div by zero error if x=0

EDIT: Looks like you need to add 180 degrees to get RA
Last edited by kens; 14-12-2018 at 10:41 PM.
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