PARTICLE PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY RESEARCH COUNCIL SCUN /25.0
ROYAL OBSERVATORY EDINBURGH

SuperCOSMOS Project

SuperCOSMOS User Note 25.0

SuperCOSMOS Coordinate Conversions

• Summary
• Introduction
• Implementation
• Simple Coordinate Conversion Example
• Description of the SCOSPOS Library
  • SCOSPOS_ADTOXY - convert (RA,Dec) to (X,Y)
  • SCOSPOS_R2SGF - convert radians to sexagesimal
  • SCOSPOS_READHK - read transform coeffs etc. from the housekeeping file
  • SCOSPOS_XYTOAD - convert (X,Y) to (RA,Dec)
• Compiling and Linking
• Getting the Software by ftp
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