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In this exercise, you will gain experience in reading star charts and in using right ascension and declination to locate objects. You will also, if you have not already done so, construct and learn to use a planisphere, which is a useful tool used in locating stars and constellations in the sky...
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The field of view gives the scale of the image—it will span the given number of degrees in declination and right ascension. ... Magnitudes are shown beneath the stars, to one decimal place with the decimal point omitted, as is the convention for star charts (decimal points being too easily confused with stars).
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www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/help/telcontrols.html
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Right Ascension & Declination for Astronomy ... Right Ascension and Declination are a system of coordinates used in astronomy to determine the location of stars, planets and other objects in the night sky. They are similar to the system of longitude ... Software & Books; Astronomy Software; Star Charts & Maps; Astronomy Books;
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www.go-astronomy.com/articles/coordinate-system.htm
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All the textbooks, star charts, planispheres and "GOTO" computers refer to sky position coordinates - called Right Ascension and Declination. ...
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calgary.rasc.ca/radecl.htm
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And then how would you interpret the declination? Again, I know what it is. I know it's the celestial equivalent to lines of latitude on the earth. But what I can't understand is how you would apply these concepts to actually locate a star in the sky if you had their right ascension and declination.
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Right ascension and declination are what astronomers use to precisely locate objects on a celestial map, and are equivalent to the imaginary lines of longitude and latitiude used in maps of the earth. The standard epoch was epoch1950.0, but current star maps are now epoch2000.0. But don't worry if you find out that...
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Keeping all this in mind, we can say a star has so many degrees of Declination and so many Hours of Right Ascension and astronomers all around the world can point their telescopes to it when it can be seen from their location on the Earth. ... Star maps or charts are used to find constellations, variable or double...
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www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/celestial.html
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An example of these coordinates might be 13h 22' 37" -48° 55' 17'. The first set of coordinates is the Right Ascension (RA) and is measured in hours and portions of an hour (minutes and seconds). The second set of numbers is declination (DEC) and is measured in degrees and portions of a degree (arcminutes and arcseconds).
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