... Orbit trace geographical coordinates on the last day of flight . Predicted "landing point" coordinates . Orbit in the topocentrical c/s of the "landing point" . The local topocentrical C/S connected with arbitrary point Lp on the Earth surface: . Origin on the point Lp . ... Elevation : The SC angular distance from the local horizontal plane. ... The last day of flight is shown in the predicted "landing point" (Lp) local topocentrical coordinate system . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Here, $\lambda = {-180^{\circ}} \ldots {+180^{\circ}}$ is the longitude and $\varphi = {-90^{\circ}} \ldots {+90^{\circ}}$ the latitude in the original coordinate system. ... begin{equation*} \tan(l_{0} - l) = \frac{\cos(\delta) \sin(\alpha - \alpha_{0})}{\sin(\delta) \cos(\delta_{0}) - \cos(\delta) \sin(\delta_{0}) \cos(\alpha - \alpha_{0})} \end{equation*} . ... begin{equation*} \sin(b) = \sin(\delta) \sin(\delta_{0}) + \cos(\delta) \cos(\delta_{0}) \cos(\alpha - \alpha_{0}) \end{equation*} . ...

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... Data may be optionally rescaled. copyheader copy header keywords from one FITS file to another ( see also FTOOL cphead ). copywcs copy just the World Coordinate System keywords from the header of one FITS image to others. fcolappend append a constant column to a FITS table fitsparsename Prints components of the extended FITS file name. fitspha convert ASCII files to FITS PHA ( See also listhead supplied with FITSIO. modifyheader modifies FITS header. ...

Observatory, 125, 23­24, 2005 NEGATIVE REPORT OF OCCULTATION BY THE D-TYPE ASTEROID (773) IRMINTRAUD By Apostolos Christou and Mark Bailey Armagh Observatory An unusual negative observation is reported of the predicted occultation of the star HIP 186 by (773) Irmintraud on the morning of 21 July 2004. ... This provides a constraint on the asteroid's position at the time of the event. ... References (1) R. L. Millis, D. W. Dunham, "Precise measurements of asteroid sizes and shapes from occultations". ...

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