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Re: [ATM] Converting ALT and AZ to RA and DEC



You might try asking on the Scopedrive yahoo group... They deal with this
sort of thing just to make their scopes do their biding.

Thomas.

-----Original Message-----
From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net] On Behalf Of
G Gagne
Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2007 11:14 PM
To: atm
Subject: [ATM] Converting ALT and AZ to RA and DEC

I have programmed my telescope computer to convert RA and DEC to ALT and 
AZ for controlling the axes of my dob telescope. However, when manually 
slewing  the telescope I often find interesting objects that I would 
like to track. What I need now are the reverse equations for RA and DEC 
of the new found object as a function of ALT and AZ derived from the 
encoders.

Can anyone point me an appropriate reference?
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