Re: trigonometric calculations

In uk.sci.astronomy message <Xns9A53ACF30DCCDcanopus56yahoocom@xxxxxxxxx
5.47>, Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:10:58, canopus56 <canopus56NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
posted:

Peter Duffet-Smith. (1988 3rd ed.) Practical Astronomy with your
Calculator. Cambridge Press.

Amazon and CUP do not recognise that name.

Without dissenting from the other suggestions, I'd be tempted to assign
an arbitrary distance, such as 1, to go with the angular co-ordinates
known, convert to Cartesian, and use that to work out the results
needed. At least it would be a check on a result more elegantly
obtained; if both agree, they might well be right.

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