AstroMosaic support for decimal degrees coordinate format

AstroMosaic v1.64 adds support for decimal degrees in target coordinates. Decimal degrees are given prefixed with letter d. Format is ‘d DD.dec DD.dec’.

For example Messier 64 coordinates can be given as d 169.73292 13.09231 in addition to 11:18:55.90 13:05:32.30 or 11.31553 13.09231.

Previously only hours and degrees format was supported. Full list of supported coordinate formats is:

Hours and degrees:

  • HH:MM:SS DD:MM:SS
  • HH MM SS DD MM SS
  • HH:MM:SS/DD:MM:SS
  • HH MM SS/DD MM SS
  • HHMMSS DDMMSS
  • HH.dec DD.dec

Decimal degrees:

  • d DD.dec DD.dec