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Re: Ecliptic coordinates of stars
From: Philip Lange
Date: 2015 Mar 29, 23:38 -0400
From: Philip Lange
Date: 2015 Mar 29, 23:38 -0400
Stellarium gives this information on
Arcturus:
A search of the NavList archives will help you set it up for the navigation stars.
On 03/29/2015 09:01 PM, Alexander Sachs wrote:
Arcturus (α Boo - 16 Boo) - HIP 69673 AIf this is useful, consider downloading it.
Type: double star
Magnitude: 0.15 (extincted to: 0.34)
Absolute Magnitude: -0.11
Color Index (B-V): 0.82
RA/Dec (J2000.0): 14h15m38.63s/+19°10'23.1"
RA/Dec (J2015.2): 14h16m21.56s/+19°06'10.5"
Hour angle/DE: 20h40m7.95s/+19°06'42.6" (apparent)
Az/Alt: +96°11'08.2"/+43°18'19.8" (apparent)
Ecliptic longitude/latitude (J2000.0): +204°14'00.1"/+30°43'33.8"
Ecliptic longitude/latitude (J2015.2): +204°26'50.2"/+30°43'30.9"
Galactic longitude/latitude: +15°01'17.5"/+69°06'39.1"
Distance: 36.71 ly
Spectral Type: K2IIIp
Parallax: 0.08885"
A search of the NavList archives will help you set it up for the navigation stars.
On 03/29/2015 09:01 PM, Alexander Sachs wrote:
Would anybody know where I can find the ecliptic coordinates of the 57 stars used in celestial navigation to at least 6 significant figures. I am using these coordinates to calculate the SHA and declination of these stars.
