Is there a way to determine your location in space?

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Reiko
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Is there a way to determine your location in space?

Post #1by Reiko » 24.03.2008, 03:23

Now that we can put stars in other galaxies is there a way to find your location in terms of RA and Dec?

For example if I fly to the M33 galaxy and place myself on the outer edge is there a way to determine where I am in RA and Dec?

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Post #2by chris » 24.03.2008, 18:41

It can be done quite easily with a celx script. This would be a useful one for someone to write.

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Post #3by Reiko » 24.03.2008, 18:44

I hope somebody does because that would be more than useful :)

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Post #4by Vincent » 25.03.2008, 12:15

You'll find a script that displays geocentric coordinates for observer here:
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12209

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