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Astro Tutorial #1.4: Coordinate Systems of the night sky - ALT/AZ vs RA/DEC

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Astro Tutorial #1.4: Coordinate Systems of the night sky - ALT/AZ vs RA/DEC

20,964 views December 28, 2019 9:23

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Welcome to the forth video of the tutorial session!

Today we discuss following items:
a) the nomenclature of important points and plains
b) coordinate systems of the night sky
c) finding stars with their coordinates in both systems

We use “Stellarium” to explore different aspects of the grids that help us to orientate in the night sky.
Download Stellarium here:
stellarium.org/

I hope you find this video helpful.
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Next video will be about
+ focal length
+ aperture
+ f-ratio and the
+ FOV

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Clear skies everyone and till next time here at catchingphotons!

Chris


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#ALZ/AZ
#RA/DEC

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catchingphotons published this 9:23 video tutorial on December 28, 2019. It has been watched 20,964 times on YouTube.

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