Bug 258183

Summary: Declination and Right Ascension are erroneus
Product: [Applications] kstars Reporter: Diego Candido <kell.92.k>
Component: generalAssignee: Akarsh Simha <akarsh.simha>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major CC: mutlaqja
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Diego Candido 2010-11-28 15:38:58 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Declination and Right Ascension of all celestial bodies seems to be erroneous, i've done a research about it on nasa site. Here's the difference:

Calculator - Equatorial Galatic


	   Equatorial Coordinates	Galatic Coordinates
	RightAscension	Declination	Latitude	Longitude

Mercury
KSTARS:17 38 43.27	-25 50 11.03	01 49 43.77	02 56 04.24
NASA:17 33 06.19 	-25 47 24.4	1.185108    	4.030590 

Venus

KSTARS:13 48 17.34	-10 32 12.50	324 56 09.30	49 53 25.49
NASA:13 46 30.36	-10 32 19.0	324.287440	50.038292

Mars

KSTARS:17 23 28.48	-23 57 25.55	01 31 21.56	06 51 26.99
NASA: 17 19 55.08	-23 53 45.8	1.112967	7.570216

Saturn

KSTARS:12 55 46.25	-3 30 10.54	305 03 11.36	59 21 03.35
NASA: 12 54 53.61	-03 24 49.9	304.621707	59.447875

Ceres (asteroid)

KSTARS:00 00 00.00	00 00 00.00	96 20 13.99	-60 11 18.62
NASA:19 08 59.41	-27 52 37.9	9.316123	-15.863078

Iris(asteroid)

KSTARS:00 00 00.00	00 00 00.00	96 20 13.99	-60 11 18.62
NASA: 08 48 06.14	+14 31 08.9	212.391167	32.291279

Sun
KSTARS:16 10 13.68	-21 02 37.56	353 02 44.18	21 56 02.16
NASA: 16 05 45.04	-20 50 41.5	352.423707	22.836066

Uranus
KSTARS:23 49 07.55	-2 00 22.39	89 34 55.96	-60 46 39.71
NASA:23 48 34.21	-02 04 01.1	89.278028	-60.762707



Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Correct results
Comment 1 Jasem Mutlaq 2015-01-27 16:59:16 UTC 
I just checked most the planets and Ceres and all results agree with other sources. Maybe this was a bug in older version of KStars. Please reopen if you still experience this issue.