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EULER
Transform between Galactic, celestial, and ecliptic coordinates.
Use the procedure ASTRO to use this routine interactively
EULER, AI, BI, AO, BO, [ SELECT, /FK4, SELECT = ]
AI - Input Longitude in DEGREES, scalar or vector. If only two parameters are supplied, then AI and BI will be modified to contain the output longitude and latitude. BI - Input Latitude in DEGREES
SELECT - Integer (1-6) specifying type of coordinate transformation. SELECT From To | SELECT From To 1 RA-Dec (2000) Galactic | 4 Ecliptic RA-Dec 2 Galactic RA-DEC | 5 Ecliptic Galactic 3 RA-Dec Ecliptic | 6 Galactic Ecliptic If not supplied as a parameter or keyword, then EULER will prompt for the value of SELECT Celestial coordinates (RA, Dec) should be given in equinox J2000 unless the /FK4 keyword is set.
AO - Output Longitude in DEGREES BO - Output Latitude in DEGREES
/FK4 - If this keyword is set and non-zero, then input and output celestial and ecliptic coordinates should be given in equinox B1950. /SELECT - The coordinate conversion integer (1-6) may alternatively be specified as a keyword
EULER was changed in December 1998 to use J2000 coordinates as the default, ** and may be incompatible with earlier versions***.
Written W. Landsman, February 1987 Adapted from Fortran by Daryl Yentis NRL Converted to IDL V5.0 W. Landsman September 1997 Made J2000 the default, added /FK4 keyword W. Landsman December 1998 Add option to specify SELECT as a keyword W. Landsman March 2003
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