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@oakamil oakamil commented Jan 29, 2026

Stellarium seems to use J2000 as its epoch, while SkySafari uses JNOW by default.

Technically we don't need to do position_of_radec etc. when J2000 is the input, but I thought this was a simpler change.

Reference to Stellarium using J2000 - https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/fc15d042/
Update to Cedar was done here - smroid/cedar-server@f2f6b69

Stellarium seems to use J2000 as its epoch, while SkySafari uses JNOW by default.

Technically we don't need to do position_of_radec etc. when J2000 is the input, but I thought this was a simpler change.

Reference to Stellarium using J2000 - https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/fc15d042/ 
Update to Cedar was done here - smroid/cedar-server@f2f6b69
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