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more astronomical projections #31

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mweastwood opened this issue Jul 26, 2017 · 0 comments

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mweastwood commented Jul 26, 2017 •

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orthographic - essentially sin projection of the hemisphere
stereographic - small circles are preserved as small circles
gnomic - great circles are straight lines
hammer-aitoff - less distortion than mollweide?
plate caree - super simple, the Guzman 45 MHz map uses this projection

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2002/45/aah3860.pdf

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