cdfp_rd_by_name

Return the Ra,Dec of a named (by line number) target in a cdfp file. A csfp file made by usno_look is named usno_targs.cdfp is used by lots of routines. You can manually find the position of a named target in this file (recall name = line number after the header) using:


% cdfp_rd_by_name usno_targs.cdfp 145
 145 293.17770385742 -6.92472219467  19:32:42.6480 -06:55:28.9999

wehre the name is given first, the the next two strings are Ra,Dec in degree units and the next two are the Ra,Dec in sexigecimal format.




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