skyview.geometry.csys
Class ICRSCoordinateSystem

java.lang.Object
  extended by skyview.geometry.CoordinateSystem
      extended by skyview.geometry.csys.ICRSCoordinateSystem
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable, Component

public class ICRSCoordinateSystem
extends CoordinateSystem
implements Component

A class defining the ICRS coordinate system. This should probably be the reference coordinate system, but it differs only very slightly from the J2000 coordinates. We are assuming the the J2000 coordinate system is FK5 based. This may not be true for at the 50 mas level. According to Feissel and Mignard (1998) the rotation angles for the three axes are between the ICRS coordinates and FK5 (-19.9, -9.1, -22.9)

See Also:
Serialized Form

Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from class skyview.geometry.CoordinateSystem
B1950, Galactic, ICRS, J2000
 
Constructor Summary
ICRSCoordinateSystem()
           
 
Method Summary
 java.lang.String getDescription()
          Get a description of the object.
 java.lang.String getName()
          Get the name of this object.
 Rotater getRotater()
          Return the rotation associated with the coordinate system.
 
Methods inherited from class skyview.geometry.CoordinateSystem
factory, factory, getSphereDistorter
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

ICRSCoordinateSystem

public ICRSCoordinateSystem()
Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()
Get the name of this object.

Specified by:
getName in interface Component

getDescription

public java.lang.String getDescription()
Get a description of the object.

Specified by:
getDescription in interface Component

getRotater

public Rotater getRotater()
Return the rotation associated with the coordinate system.

Specified by:
getRotater in class CoordinateSystem