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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Hans Milton
Date: 2014 Sep 17, 11:03 -0700
I am sorry to somewhat, in a sense, repeat myself.
But same as you I wanted to get my head around the celestial coordinates systems. As used both in astronomy and celestial navigation. Investigated it, and this is the result:
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CelestialSphereBasics/
Hans
Star locations?
From: Samuel L
Date: 2014 Sep 16, 05:53 -0700
I've having a hard time in figuring out or understanding the Star SHA figure and what it means.
For example- Arcturus is 145d 55.2 min. with a declination of 19 d 6.6 min North.
What in the world does that mean? I assume it someway corresponds to RA and Dec (RA, of course is meaningless...to say it references off of Aries or the Spring equinox is even MORE meaningless as I would understand it better if were referenced off some real place like Greenwich).
Can someone please explain that stuff?
Thank you,
Sam Lohengrin
