Fast Determination of Constellation Membership
Abstract
The 88 constellations as defined by the IAU segment the sky into regions, separated by an intricate set of boundaries. A binary tree decomposition of this landscape is given which tessellates the celestial sphere into rectangles. This allows a fast determination of the constellation membership of any given sky coordinate.
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