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celestial (version 1.3)

celestial-package: Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

Description

Various functions for converting between commonly used coordinate systems in astronomy and making cosmological calculations.

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Details

Package: celestial
Type: Package
Version: 1.3
Date: 2015-06-10
License: GPL-3

There are a number of functions included, but the most useful for astronomy conversions are the decimal degrees to DMS/HMS formats used at many telescopes: deg2dms, deg2hms, dms2deg, hms2deg. It also contains functions for various cosmological calculations (i.e. distance, volume and age for different cosmologies and redshifts).