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software to plot Aitoff Projection

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Hi,

I've been trying, fairly unsucessfully, to get gnuplot to plot an aitoff projection. Anyone know how to do it, or what software can do it easily (and freely!) from a set of lat/long coords?

Basically I want to change the graphic thats in my avatar, to a projection like
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(though of the galaxy not the Earth!)

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~Al (yep its writeup time again!)
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Replied by albertw on topic Re: software to plot Aitoff Projection

Worked it out.

Formulae taken from the Aitoff projection page on wilkipedia
[code:1]
XC(lat,lon)=(2*(acos(cos(lon)*cos(lat/2)))*cos(lon)*sin(lat/2))/sin(acos(cos(lon)*cos(lat/2)))
YC(lat,lon)=(( acos(cos(lon)*cos(lat/2)) *sin(lon) ) / sin( acos(cos(lon)*cos(lat/2)) ))
set angles degrees
plot "miranda.loc" using (XC($1,$2)):(YC($1,$2))[/code:1]

where "miranda.loc" is a file containing two columns; one for galactic lat and one for galactic lon.
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Replied by Seanie_Morris on topic Re: software to plot Aitoff Projection

Worked it out.


Damn, you just beat me to it...

:P :lol:
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Damn, you just beat me to it...

:P :lol:


again! :lol:
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Thats one high tech avatar Al. :lol:
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Replied by albertw on topic Re: software to plot Aitoff Projection

Thats one high tech avatar Al. :lol:


It's taken about 3 months to draw :lol:
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