celestial-package {celestial}

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

Description

Various functions for converting between commonly used coordinate systems in astronomy and making cosmological calculations.

Details

Package:	celestial
Type:	Package
Version:	1.4.6
Date:	2018-11-20
License:	GPL-3
Depends:	R (>= 3.00), RANN, NISTunits, pracma

There are a number of functions included, but the most useful for astronomy conversions are the decimal degrees to DMS/HMS formats used at many telescopes: deg2dms, deg2hms, dms2deg, hms2deg. It also contains functions for various cosmological calculations (i.e. distance, volume and age for different cosmologies and redshifts).

Author(s)

Aaron Robotham

Maintainer: Aaron Robotham <[e-mail]>