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(mathrmDEC1)cdotsin(mathrmDEC2)+cos(mathrmDEC1)cdotcos(mathrmDEC2)cdotcos(mathrmRA1mathrmRA2)

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