Declination to Elevation

[David55]

Does anyone have the equations necessary to convert from declination and right ascension to elevation and azimuth? I'd like to be able to produce a spreadsheet to get a printout of that day's targets at a particular time in the evening.

I've found that the best way of finding objects is to tilt my scope to the correct elevation angle using a zero cost app on my iPhone and then slowly swing the scope east and west until I find the object I'm after. Works very well with a wide angle eyepiece

Any help appreciated.

David

[acey]

Here you go:

http://www.stargazing.net/kepler/altaz.html

[David55]

Many thanks. Now to put it into spreadsheet format...