Units and Unit Conversion

Unit Conversion

• Angles measured in Degrees:Minutes:Seconds may be converted to Degrees (with decimals) using the sdDMS2D function.
  
• Degrees may be converted into 
  • other angular and time measures using the sdD2Unit function.
    
  • a printable text format using the sdD2Text function.
    
  • it's component sign, degree, minute and second using the sdDUnpackx function.
    
• Other angular and time measures may be converted into degrees with the sdUnit2D function.
  
• MJD, SDY, UTD, CTD string time values may be converted to 
  
  • a printable text format using the sdxTime2Text function.
    
  • it's component year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and timezone using the sdxTimeUnpackx function.
    
• MJD, SDY, UTD, CTD string time values may be converted to a simple numeric value using the sdxGetv function

Coordinate Conversion

• Solar Equatorial Coordinates may be converted to Horizontal Coordinate values using the sdEqu2Alt and sdEqu2Azi functions.