DOUBLE PRECISION FUNCTION sla_PA (HA, DEC, PHI) *+ * - - - * P A * - - - * * HA, Dec to Parallactic Angle (double precision) * * Given: * HA d hour angle in radians (geocentric apparent) * DEC d declination in radians (geocentric apparent) * PHI d observatory latitude in radians (geodetic) * * The result is in the range -pi to +pi * * Notes: * * 1) The parallactic angle at a point in the sky is the position * angle of the vertical, i.e. the angle between the direction to * the pole and to the zenith. In precise applications care must * be taken only to use geocentric apparent HA,Dec and to consider * separately the effects of atmospheric refraction and telescope * mount errors. * * 2) At the pole a zero result is returned. * * P.T.Wallace Starlink 16 August 1994 * * Copyright (C) 1995 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory * * License: * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program (see SLA_CONDITIONS); if not, write to the * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, * Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA * *- IMPLICIT NONE DOUBLE PRECISION HA,DEC,PHI DOUBLE PRECISION CP,SQSZ,CQSZ CP=COS(PHI) SQSZ=CP*SIN(HA) CQSZ=SIN(PHI)*COS(DEC)-CP*SIN(DEC)*COS(HA) IF (SQSZ.EQ.0D0.AND.CQSZ.EQ.0D0) CQSZ=1D0 sla_PA=ATAN2(SQSZ,CQSZ) END