Talk:Spherical astronomy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astronomy, which collaborates on articles related to astronomy.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale. [FAQ]
Help with this template Please rate this article, and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

This page should really be merged with (and redirect to) Positional astronomy?! As the article says, they are the same topic! MFago 01:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Wow, this merge notice has been around forever! This should really be merged with astrometry, the general name for the subject. Dr. Submillimeter 12:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I've merged positional astronomy to spherical astronomy (the latter name seems to be more common). —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-26 00:37Z

[edit] Definition needs improvement

Isn't the definition in the lead sentence a bit too restrictive? Celestial coordinates are often given for an imaginary viewpoint at the Earth's center (geocentric), solar system center of mass (barycentric), etc. But the present definition refers to topocentric coordinates only. I propose something like "... the branch of astronomy concerned with measuring and predicting the positions of celestial bodies." What do you think? Paul Hirose 22:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)