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RA Dec
« on: December 17, 2008, 07:42:29 AM »
I have some numbers for RA and Dec for a GRB and I want to make it in UniverseSandbox. Is there any way to do this. I dont have distance though.

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2009, 08:59:56 PM »
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this:

I just tried this and at the moment it doesn't work.

Although since I already use RA & Dec for galaxy positioning so it should be an easy fix to add support in the XML system files.

Once it works it will most likely work like this:
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<Body>
<Object>Neptune</Object>
<RA>17:45:40.045</RA>
<Dec>-29:0:27.9</Dec>
<Distance>1 au</Distance>
</Body>

What are the RA & Dec # that you have?

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2009, 04:37:47 PM »
Heres Every thing I found on it:

GRB 090102A
Burst Time(1) 02:55:45 GCN8762
Burst Time(2) 02:55:36 GCN8776
RA 08:32:58.54 GCN8766
DEC +33:06:51.10 GCN8766
Radius 0.500" GCN8766
Duration (15-350 keV) 30 s GCN8762
Fluence (15-150 keV) 6.8e-06 erg cm-2 GCN8769
Fluence (20-2000 keV) 3.09e-05 erg cm-2 GCN8776
Peak Flux (20-2000 keV) 5.1e-06 erg cm-2 s-1 GCN8776
Duration (20-2000 keV) 30 s GCN8776
OT? yes (plot data) GCN8761
Flter: H in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: R in 31 of 32 obs 
Flter: White in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: b in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: none in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: r' in 12 of 12 obs 
Flter: u in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: uvm2 in 0 of 1 obs 
Flter: uvw1 in 0 of 1 obs 
Flter: uvw2 in 0 of 1 obs 
Flter: v in 1 of 1 obs 
Flter: wh in 1 of 1 obs 
RT? no (plot data) 
Freq: 8.46 GHz in 0 of 1 obs 
XT? yes (plot data) GCN8762
Range: - keV in 2 of 2 obs 
Range: 15-350 keV in 1 of 1 obs 
Redshift 1.55 GCN8774

Just in case you needed that.

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2009, 04:43:39 PM »
What is that data for? What is it?

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 06:39:22 PM »
GRB 090102A AS IN 1/2/09

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2009, 07:07:42 PM »
Ahh... You're wanting to plot the position of a Gamma Ray Burst. Fun.

I expect that this feature (ability to use RA, Dec) will be working in the next release.

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Re: RA Dec
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2009, 08:40:35 PM »
YES! ;D