stuffedhaggis Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Well the wife got me a nice 130p goto for xmas . To be used a portable scope . But I have been looking at the set up hows do you convert decimal gps data in to what the goto computer ??Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyboy1970 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Go on to Google earth and place the hand over your location and just read the co-ordinates on the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 The degrees are degrees.Take the decimal part as 0.73 and multiply this bit by 60.That gives the minutes.Enter as deg minNo need for seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroAdam Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Or this will do it automatically for you (either way)...http://transition.fc...SS-decimal.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuffedhaggis Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 The degrees are degrees.Take the decimal part as 0.73 and multiply this bit by 60.That gives the minutes.Enter as deg minNo need for seconds.Magic cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyboy1970 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Still easier on google earth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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