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SLA_TP2S - Tangent Plane to Spherical

ACTION:
Transform tangent plane coordinates into spherical coordinates (single precision)
CALL:
CALL sla_TP2S (XI, ETA, RAZ, DECZ, RA, DEC)
GIVEN:

XI,ETA R tangent plane rectangular coordinates (radians)
RAZ,DECZ R spherical coordinates of tangent point (radians)
RETURNED:

RA,DEC R spherical coordinates (radians)
NOTES:
  1. The projection is called the gnomonic projection; the Cartesian coordinates $[ \xi,\eta ]$ are called standard coordinates. The latter are in units of the distance from the tangent plane to the projection point, i.e. radians near the origin.
  2. When working in $[ x,y,z ]$ rather than spherical coordinates, the equivalent Cartesian routine sla_TP2V is available.


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SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library
Starlink User Note 67
P. T. Wallace
19 December 2005
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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