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Perhaps in Celestia 1.5, there could be something where you could enter RA, and DEC data...and it can convert it from RA in degrees, to RA in time, or the other way around, and then take you there, i think this would also make it much easier if you wanted to add an object that isnt found in the Celestia Motherlode site, you could add the RA time, and convert to RA in degrees(what Celestia uses to position things in space). also, if there were any sites i missed that can do this converting that i speak of...please post link for me, thanks for hearing me out

degrees = 15*(hours+minutes/60+seconds/3600)

dalmatian_fanatic wrote:Perhaps in Celestia 1.5, there could be something where you could enter RA, and DEC data...and it can convert it from RA in degrees, to RA in time, or the other way around, and then take you there, i think this would also make it much easier if you wanted to add an object that isnt found in the Celestia Motherlode site, you could add the RA time, and convert to RA in degrees(what Celestia uses to position things in space). also, if there were any sites i missed that can do this converting that i speak of...please post link for me, thanks for hearing me out

Dalmatian_fanatic, it's a very easy task, believe me, but to give you my two cents, download here my very small (16K) Excel file

http://ftp.tiscali.it/andrea_celestia/A ... ations.xls

where if you'll write in the white cells the objct position in RAh-mm-ss and DEC in ?°-'-" you'll obtain in the yellow cells the resulting RA and DEC in decimal degrees.
Enjoy.
Bye

Andrea

thanks for the help....unfortunately i dont have the Excel software on my computer, but still am going to see about their free trial download.

Try OpenOffice instead. It's completely free. The spreadsheet format is compatible.

http://www.openoffice.org/

this looks promising....but with a minimum 97MB download of the program...and me being on dialup, im going to have to devote basically my whole day towards it...but still it seems worth it

dalmatian_fanatic wrote:this looks promising....but with a minimum 97MB download of the program...and me being on dialup, im going to have to devote basically my whole day towards it...but still it seems worth it

Such a trivial calculation can be done with ANYTHING that smells like programming,

ALGOL, BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN77, FORTRAN90/95, C, C++, PERL, SHELL scripts, LUA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, ...EXEL

did you NEVER touch ANY of those a little bit in school or your profession or your hobbies??? How about installing LUA?

You may even use a programmable pocket calculator

Bye Fridger