Observatory Codes 2010-03-03T10:10:00Z 500 List of Observatory Codes assigned by the Minor Planet Center (MPC). The codes are used in cataloguing astrometric observations of small bodies in the solar system. A code is unique for a certain location and consists of three digits or one letter and two digits. In this representation, we give the observatory code, the geocentric coordinates, and the observatory designation. `_, we give the geocentric and geodetic latitudes and the height (more or less above sea level) computed from the parallax constants given in the source. The data in MPC's list is given to three to six decimal places, so the accuracy of these values is usually not better than a couple of dozen meters (and can be substantially worse at times). ]]> Minor Planet Center catalogs observatories 1983MPC..7759...... http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html http://www.openstreetmap.org?zoom=17 execDef.spawn(["dachs", "imp", "obscode/q", "update_from_upstream"]) 1-4 5-13 14-21 22-30 31- math.atan2(float(@sinphip), float(@cosphip))/utils.DEG math.sqrt(float(@sinphip)**2+float(@cosphip)**2) from gavo.stc import geo long, lat, height = geo.geocToGeod( float(vars["long"]), vars["gclat"], vars["rho"]) vars["height"] = height vars["gdlat"] = lat import return T.a(href=data)["[OSM]"] obscode_web