Monday, 31 January 2011

rotation - Determining planetary positions on the celestial sphere by Right Ascension and Declination

How would one go about determining the position of the different planets in our solar system with respect to the celestial sphere based on the following data set? Is there a practical way to calculate this?



SUN
ra - 09h 00m
dec - 17.2

MOON
ra - 09h 11m
dec - 11.3

MERCURY
ra - 09h 33m
dec - 16.3

VENUS
ra - 06h 19m
dec - 22.8

MARS
ra - 09h 43m
dec - 15

JUPITER
ra - 12h 27m
dec - -1.7

SATURN
ra - 05h 46m
dec - 23.1


Any suggestions would be awesome!

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