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SLA_DSEP - Angle Between 2 Points on Sphere
ACTION:
Angle between two points on a sphere (double precision).
CALL:
D = sla_DSEP (A1, B1, A2, B2)
GIVEN:
A1,B1
D
spherical coordinates of one point (radians)
A2,B2
D
spherical coordinates of the other point (radians)
RETURNED:
sla_DSEP
D
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