Lat/Long Location finding

[rich_8377]

I have been trying to align my Celestron Nexstar 5 SE and am having trouble doing it. When using the star align feature it asks you to either select your closest city or input your Lat/Long. There aren't a lot of UK cities to choose from on the list and I am at least 50 miles from the closest one. Can anyone tell me if there is a website or an app for android that will give the lat/long coordinates of any town or city in the UK? Or any other help would be appreciated. Cheers.

[valleyman]

This might help. http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html+

Bicester is 51.54.4 North, -1.9.14 West

[ronin]

51.9 N, -1.15 or 1.15W

That is more or less the centre of Bicester.

Better (possibly)

Google maps,

Zoom in to your road and location,

Single click on that position,

Right click and menu appears with What is here?

Select that.

Green arrow appears,

Hold mouse pointer over the green arrow.

Lat+Long displayed.

Took me years to find this out.

[rich_8377]

Wow, thanks guys. I wasn't expecting such a precise reply so quickly. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

[L8-Nite]

Google Earth works for me. Just zoom to what ever location, and down to a birds eye view above street level, then read your Lat. & Lon. at the bottom of the page.