tagSkyPosition Struct Reference

This structure stores the two spherical coordinates of a sky position; ie a generic latitude and longitude; the structure is not defined specific to a particular coordinate system, but maintains a tag indicating which coordinate system it is expressed in. More...

#include <SkyCoordinates.h>


Data Fields

REAL8 longitude
 The longitudinal coordinate (in radians), as defined above.
REAL8 latitude
 The latitudinal coordinate (in radians), as defined above.
CoordinateSystem system
 The coordinate system in which latitude/longitude are expressed.


Detailed Description

This structure stores the two spherical coordinates of a sky position; ie a generic latitude and longitude; the structure is not defined specific to a particular coordinate system, but maintains a tag indicating which coordinate system it is expressed in.

Definition at line 69 of file SkyCoordinates.h.


Field Documentation

REAL8 tagSkyPosition::longitude

The longitudinal coordinate (in radians), as defined above.

Definition at line 70 of file SkyCoordinates.h.

REAL8 tagSkyPosition::latitude

The latitudinal coordinate (in radians), as defined above.

Definition at line 71 of file SkyCoordinates.h.

CoordinateSystem tagSkyPosition::system

The coordinate system in which latitude/longitude are expressed.

Definition at line 72 of file SkyCoordinates.h.


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