Friday, 25 January 2013

earth - How to calculate right ascension of Greenwich?

Right Ascension is a celestial coordinate, not a terrestrial one.



RA is used to locate a star on sky, and is measured between a fixed point in the sky (the crossing of the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator) and the star's meridian.



It corresponds to terrestrial coordinate Latitude.



Thus, Greenwich has no Right Ascension.

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