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SLA_SEP - Angle Between 2 Points on Sphere
ACTION:
Angle between two points on a sphere (single precision).
CALL:
R = sla_SEP (A1, B1, A2, B2)
GIVEN:
A1,B1
R
spherical coordinates of one point (radians)
A2,B2
R
spherical coordinates of the other point (radians)
RETURNED:
sla_SEP
R
angle between [A1,B1] and [A2,B2] in radians
NOTES:
1.
The spherical coordinates are right ascension and declination, longitude and latitude,
etc.
in radians.
2.
The result is always positive.
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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