Javascript Utilities 1.1

 
 

List of available tools and purpose:
Click on the tabs above to select one.

  1. Date Tool:
    • Convert calender date & time to Julian date and MJD
    • Convert julian date/MJD to calender date and time
    • Calculate LST for a given geographical longitude, local time and time zone
    • Option to populate date and time fields from user's system

  2. Coordinate Tool:
    • Read equatorial coordinates of two sources and calculate the angular separation
    • Optional AJAX name resolver to read source names and populate coordinate fields
    • Convert right ascension from "hr min sec" format to degrees and vice versa
    • Convert declination from "deg min sec" format to degrees and vice versa

  3. Magnitude - Flux Tool:
    • Converts astronomical source magnitude to flux density and vice-versa
    • Choice of band for magnitude includes U/B/V/R/I/J/H/K
    • Flux density may be displayed in W m-2 Hz-1/ ergs s-1 cm-2 Hz-1/ ergs s-1 cm-2 A-1/ Jy

  4. Distance tool:
    • Conversion of length, to and from a variety of units
    • Options include astronomical, metric and imperial units

Date:
Time: Hr
Time Zone: Hr
Longitude: Deg.
Julian Date MJD LST
Source 1
RA Hr min sec
Deg (decimal)
Dec Deg min sec
Deg(decimal)
Source 2
RA Hr min sec
Deg (decimal)
Dec Deg min sec
Deg (decimal)
Angular Separation  Degrees
Band Magnitude Flux Density

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Programming & Web interface: Rekhesh Mohan
If you notice any bugs - Unexpected results, crashes, failure, etc. in this software, do let us know about it. Either you may file a bug report at the Tauvex Bugzilla or write to tauvex@iiap.res.in

CSS 2.1 Xhtml 1.0 Last Modified by: Reks July 17, 2009 GooglePagerank