IAUID

Creates IAU legal names for objects given coordinates, name and epoch.

convert

Contains a number of common astronomy utility functions for cosmology and angular coordinates.

Aaron Robotham

celestial

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and
Functions

IAUID function

<dl> <dt>ra</dt>
<dd>Right Ascension in decimal degrees.</dd> <dt>dec</dt>
<dd>Declination in decimal degrees.</dd> <dt>name</dt>
<dd>Name to be appended to IAU designation as a string.</dd> <dt>epoch</dt>
<dd>Epoch, i.e. 'J' (default) or 'B'. Enter as a string.</dd></dl>

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Author

IAU name creator. — IAUID

<dl>

 <dt>ra</dt>
<dd>Right Ascension in decimal degrees.</dd>

 <dt>dec</dt>
<dd>Declination in decimal degrees.</dd>

 <dt>name</dt>
<dd>Name to be appended to IAU designation as a string.</dd>

 <dt>epoch</dt>
<dd>Epoch, i.e. 'J' (default) or 'B'. Enter as a string.</dd>

</dl>

IAUID: IAU name creator.

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