Re: Sphere
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- Subject: [mg65563] Re: Sphere
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:14:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <e12s6o$j7i$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Matija Herceg <mPREZIME at geof.hr> wrote: > My professor ask me if I could make program which would draw celestial > sphere with (celestial) measurements on it to show celestial coordinates > of some (celestial) body. > > My idea was that I could draw sphere in mathematica, and with celestial > coordinates given by user input the program would draw celestial curves > (declination, ascension...). > > Can I draw curves on sphere in Mathematica? > > Is this possible in new version of Mathematica (5.1 and higher)? > Because GeometricalGeodesy (a new Mathematica application package) is > now available, and I don't know if some of this problems can be solved > without this new package. Alternatively, the Scientific Astronomer package is of interest? http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/astronomer/ Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: 61 8 6488 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul