Calibration Binaries

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA550609

Entities

People

  • Jack D. Drummond

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Binary Stars
  • Calibration
  • Catalogs
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Equations
  • Iterations
  • Military Research
  • Observatories
  • Orbital Elements
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Space Surveillance
  • Star Position
  • Stars
  • Telescopes

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris