Detailed description of the search areas

• Definitions
• Algorithms
  • Conversion between equatorial coordinate systems
  • Choice of an initial search area
  • Equatorial to tangent plane conversion
• Apertures
• Radial distortion
  • Conversion to guide-probe coordinates
• Diagrams of the search areas
  • WHT Cassegrain (Figure 1)
  • WHT UES (Figure 2)
  • INT Prime CCD (Figure 3)
  • INT Cassegrain (Figure 4)
  • JKT f/8 Cassegrain (Figure 5)
  • JKT f/15 Cassegrain CCD (Figure 6)
  • Simple search (Figure 7)