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I like using “Burnham’s Celestial Handbook”, but the 1950s epoch coordinates quickly get frustrating, as we’re mostly using J2000 now. To speed up my workflow, I created this Python script to quickly convert from 1950s to J2000 coordinates. You’re welcome to pick it up from here (see disclaimer directly below). – note: you will also needContinue reading “Astronomy: Python script to convert coordinates between epochs…”