CSERD: Astronomical Coordinates

Title:	Astronomical Coordinates
Url:	http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/Resources/Applications/AstronomicalCoordinates/index.php
Creator:	David Joiner, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Contributor:	none listed
Publisher:	The Computational Science Education Reference Desk
Description:	The celestial coordinate system is a projection of earth's coordinate system into the celestial sphere. Being just like Earth's system it contains an "equator", lines of "latitude" and "longitude", and even poles. (Though we don't use the same words for it.) One suggestion one might have would be to just extend the Earth's latitude, longitude, and equator out into the night sky, but the Earth is constantly spinning. For the Celestial coordinates, we have to pick some fixed reference to go by.
Format:	text/html
Language:	English
Subject:	Astronomy
Keywords:	none listed
Audience:	Educator, Scientist, Student
Education Level:	Grades 10-12, Grades 7-9, Graduate, Undergraduate
Resource Type:	Text