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celestial (version 1.5.8)

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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Author

Aaron Robotham

Maintainer: Aaron Robotham <aaron.robotham@uwa.edu.au>

Details

Package:celestial
Type:Package
Version:1.5.6
Date:2023-11-23
License:GPL-3
Depends:R (>= 3.00), RANN, NISTunits, pracma
Suggest:plotrix, igraph

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).