Spherical Astronomy - Part 1

In this BAS Spherical Astronomy Series, listen to Dr. Akarsh, take us through the mathematics involved to calculate the position of a Star or a DSO to decent precision from its Catalog co-ordinates. References : 1. Lots of Wikipedia articles (many of them are very well written and explanatory; I recommend looking at them for concepts and at Meeus for calculations. 2. “Astronomical Algorithms“ by Jean Meeus Other references on the subject that are not used: 3. Explanatory supplement to the astronomical almanac [An older version of this available on the Internet Archive: ] Dr. B. S. Shylaja used to give an Astrophysics 101 course to REAP students at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru. The slides are available here: ~akarsh/ ~akarsh/