Examples

This section contains some examples of the many ways in which sky positions can be specified:

Right Ascension values

: 11 hours, 34 minutes and 56.2 seconds could be specified as

• ``11 34 56.2''
• ``11h 34m 56.2s''
• ``11 34.9366''
• ``11.58228''
• ``113456.2''.

Declination values

: -45 degrees 12 arc-minutes could be specified as

• ``-45 12 00''
• ``-45 12''
• ``-45d 12m''
• ``-45.2d''
• ``-451200''
• ``-0.78888r'' (this is a radians value).

Longitude and latitude values for sky coordinate systems other than equatorial are specified like Declination values.