SkyPosition Struct Reference

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 70 of file SkyCoordinates.h.

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

Field Documentation

longitude

REAL8 SkyPosition::longitude

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

Definition at line 71 of file SkyCoordinates.h.

latitude

REAL8 SkyPosition::latitude

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

Definition at line 72 of file SkyCoordinates.h.

system

CoordinateSystem SkyPosition::system

The coordinate system in which latitude/longitude are expressed.

Definition at line 73 of file SkyCoordinates.h.