How to enter galactic coordinates?

[ojf]

Docs say we can--but how does it know? Because both are measured in degrees-minutes-seconds?

Answer may lie within "colon delineated RA & Dec broken in Telescope Control tab #8
"

[dougbrn]

This can definitely be better addressed as I assumed that this would hardly ever be used, the current way to do it is a bit of a hack. It pops up in the error window if you enter an invalid coordinate format. To do this, you have to put "l=[Value for Galactic Longitude]" in the RA field and "b=[Value for Galactic Latitude]" in the DEC field. It converts this to hh:mm:ss in the background.

[jwhueh]

Dougs original point is a good one. Is this a value that is currently being used? If so great, but slightly unexpected per the original requirements request. Joe

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[ojf]

Looks like we have our answer--will update documentation

[Ssoyrnoz]

Documentation has been updated to cover entering galactic coordinates.