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SLA_GALSUP - Galactic to Supergalactic
ACTION:
Transformation from IAU 1958 galactic coordinates to de Vaucouleurs supergalactic coordinates.
CALL:
CALL sla_GALSUP (DL, DB, DSL, DSB)
GIVEN:
DL,DB
D
galactic longitude and latitude
(radians)
RETURNED:
DSL,DSB
D
supergalactic longitude and latitude (radians)
REFERENCES:
1.
de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, & Corwin,
Second Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies
, U.Texas, p8.
2.
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
.)
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SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library
Starlink User Note 67
P. T. Wallace
12 October 1999
E-mail:ptw@star.rl.ac.uk