palSupgal
palSupgal
- Convert from supergalactic to galactic coordinates
- Description:
- Transformation from de Vaucouleurs supergalactic coordinates
to IAU 1958 galactic coordinates
- Invocation:
- void palSupgal ( double dsl, double dsb, double
dl, double
db );
- Arguments:
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dsl = double (Given)
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Supergalactic longitude.
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dsb = double (Given)
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Supergalactic latitude.
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dl = double
(Returned)
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Galactic longitude.
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db = double
(Returned)
-
Galactic latitude.
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See Also
- de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, & Corwin, Second Reference
Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, U. Texas, page 8.
- Systems & Applied Sciences Corp., Documentation for the
machine-readable version of the above catalogue,
Contract NAS 5-26490.
(These two references give different values for the galactic
longitude of the supergalactic origin. Both are wrong; the
correct value is L2=137.37.)