RAsc Dec convertor

[Setu]

I'm working on an excel sheet to convert Right Ascension and Declination to Elite coordinates. This will enable explorers to look things up online e.g. wikipediea and then work out where they are in-game.
I need some more data and I'm not at home. Can anyone online tell me the coordinates of Gliese 433 please?

 

[Sapient6]

From wikipedia (which you probably don't need to be home to see):

Right ascension	11h 35m 26.9485s
Declination	−32° 32′ 23.900″

 

[Dommarraa]

I think he wants the ED coords, but will have to wait for the update.

 

[Dommarraa]

-12, 70, -27 (or close to)

 

[Setu]

Thanks! ED coords was what I needed. Ta.
My spreadsheet doesnt work correctly, is my conclusion!!!
I will post it here when it does.

 

[Dommarraa]

I dont know how you will deal with distance. Real data is between dubious and horse-hooey

 

[Setu]

I'm aiming that I can get a 'rough fix' enough to find it in the galaxy map. However there seem to be some oddities, for instance Gliese 433 is listed in Wikipedia as (as Sapient6 said) RA 11h35m... and DEC-32h32m23.9 degrees and 29.5 light years. However ED coordinates (in LY?) of -12,70,-27 would give a distance of 75 LY. If there was a factor of 3.3 then I'd suspect a Ly/Pc confusion, but that just seems way out. My calculations place it at 12 (not worried about the sign for the moment), 3.86, -26.5 . Now how similar is 12,4,27 to -12,70,-27? Something is wrong, so I'll recheck and put in some other stars. Sgr A* comes out about right at (small number), (small number) 29632, so my calcs aren't far out.

I know I have had some degrees/radians problems - which I thought I'd sorted out.