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jokkehasa / brightest-star

App for recognising objects in the night sky
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Coordinate transformation #3

Open jokkehasa opened 2 years ago

jokkehasa commented 2 years ago

Write transformation code from celestial to horizontal coordinates

jokkehasa commented 2 years ago

Some information: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/horizontal-coordinate-system.html (general idea), http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~fv/webnotes/chapter7.htm (formulae).

jokkehasa commented 2 years ago

Some more information: https://sibosummerprojects.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/m-converting-between-equatorial-coordinates-and-horizontal-coordinates/ (some code) and https://www.npmjs.com/package/local-sidereal-time (getting LST).