Jack D. Drummond (Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate, RDSAM)
Keywords: calibration
Abstract:
Two Excel Spreadsheet files are offered to help calibrate telescope or camera image scale and orientation with binary stars for any time. One is a personally selected list of fixed position binaries and binaries with well-determined orbits, and the other contains all binaries with published orbits. Both are derived from the web site of the Washington Double Star Library. The spreadsheets give the position angle and separation of the binaries for any entered time by taking advantage of Excel’s built in iteration function to solve Kepler’s transcendental equation.
Date of Conference: September 13-16, 2011
Track: Poster