Tuesday, 26 January 2010

fundamental astronomy - Calculating Angular Distance

You use Spherical Trigonometry



Given A1 and A2 are the respective azimuthal coordinates of the two objects, and a1, a2 their respective altitudes,



the angular seperation theta is given by



costheta=sina1sina2+cosa1cosa2cos(A1A2)

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