On Tue, 22 May 2007, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>>>> Sorry, for the confused that should be:
>>>>
>>>> (*12h34m56s~1m19s,12d34m56s:12d35m01s)
>
> Yep that makes more sense.
>
> This looks human readable for sky co-ordinates. For that reason it gets
> my vote.
>
> There is an ambiguity if one want to express an longitude distance in
> seconds of time instead of arcseconds. Since "s" and "m" are used
> for both measures of angle and time, that's not a problem and one could
> put in the preceding "0h[0m]" to resolve the overloading in the rare
> cases where this was required.
>
> I hope that there is flexibility in the formatting, say to be able to
> use 188.733d for the right ascension if you want to use decimal degrees
> rather than sexagesimal (degrees is the norm in meteor astronomy).
>
> Are there are lists of unit abbreviations for the various Frames like
> SpecFrame and TimeFrame?
See the astUnformat description in SUN/211[210].
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