Description:
Transformation from de Vaucouleurs supergalactic coordinates to IAU 1958 galactic
coordinates
Invocation
void palSupgal ( double dsl, double dsb, double
∗dl, double
∗db );
Arguments
dsl = double (Given)
Supergalactic longitude.
dsb = double (Given)
Supergalactic latitude.
dl = double
∗ (Returned)
Galactic
longitude.
db = double ∗
(Returned)
Galactic latitude.
See Also
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de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, & Corwin, Second Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, U. Texas,
page 8.
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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 L2=137.37.)
Copyright © 2012 Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Copyright © 2014 Cornell University.
Copyright © 2015 Tim Jenness