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6.1.1 sky: Sky Matching

matcher=sky values*='<ra/degrees> <dec/degrees>'
            params='<max-error/arcsec>'

The sky matcher compares positions on the celestial sphere with a fixed error radius. Rows are considered to match when the two (ra, dec) positions are within max-error arcseconds of each other along a great circle.

In fact this matching is not restricted to equatorial coordinates - the ra and dec parameters may represent any longitude-like and latitude-like coordinates in degrees, since the spherical geometry for the matching is unchanged under such transformations.


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Starlink User Note256
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Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk