Using Sexagesimal or Galactic Coordinates

The NASA Exoplanet Archive table processing includes an analysis of the input to determine a location on the sky. Coordinates can be entered as:

• Decimal degrees or sexagesimal
• In Galactic, Equatorial or Ecliptic (with/or without Equinox)
• As multiple columns or a single column coordinate string
• Or if a single string, as an object name to be resolved via astronomical name resolvers.

If any of the column pairs in the table below are given, they will be interpreted as shown in the Result column.

Note: The input column names are not case-sensitive.

* The first two examples default to J2000, unless an Equinox column is included.

* * The last two examples default to Equatorial J2000 unless extra Equinox ("equinox" or "epoch") and Coordinate-system ("coord sys" or "sys" or "csys") columns are explicitly given.

If no complete set of coordinate columns is found, the table is checked for a variety of possible columns that might contain coordinate strings or object names: "object," "source," "objname," "objstr," "locstr," "location," "star," "galaxy," or "name." The next step is to parse the coordinates or look up the object by name.

Coordinates can be decimal degrees or sexagesimal in various forms, for example: