Tuesday, 12 May 2015

positional astronomy - Angular distance/apparent separation between AE Aurigae and Orion's belt

Given the cords of AE aurigae:



RA 05h 16m 18.1s DEC +34° 18' 49"



And Alnitak in Orion's belt:



RA 05h 40m 45.52666s DEC −01° 56′ 34.2649″



I get an angular separation of 34.83°



By this formula:



$cos(A) = sin(mathrm{DEC}_1)cdot sin(mathrm{DEC}_2) + cos(mathrm{DEC}_1)cdot cos(mathrm{DEC}_2)cdot cos(mathrm{RA}_1 - mathrm{RA}_2)$

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