How to get Longitude and latitude co-ordinates for synscan?

[StargeezerTim]

Hi there,

Anyone know of a good website or phone app that will give accurate co-ordinates? I googled my location (UK) and got about 4 different sets of co-ordinates, some wildly different!

Cheers, Tim. 

[SteveNickolls]

Hi, sorry your'e having problems. I used Google Earth to pinpoint my usual observing position and use that for entering into the handset. You could also visit http://www.latlong.net/ 

Cheers,

Steve

[parallaxerr]

If you have an I-phone you can use the standard compass app that is pre-installed, LAT LONG is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise there are lots of I-phone and Android GPS location apps, I have tried several and they have all agreed on position, just go for the one you like the look of...

If you want a LAT LONG for your regular viewing site then Google Earth is very good, you can pin point down to within a few feet.

Jon

[SteveNickolls]

Hmm that link doesn't work, try this- http://gridreferencefinder.com/

Regards,

Steve

[Coastliner]

For Android I use an app called Map Coordinates.

[Mick J]

Hi, sorry your'e having problems. I used Google Earth to pinpoint my usual observing position and use that for entering into the handset. You could also visit http://www.latlong.net/ 

Cheers,

Steve

I use this one as well, works without the last forward slash (forward slash added by the forum software) -  www.latlong.net

[Cornelius Varley]

This is the site I use http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html This one give the coordinates in degrees and minutes whereas many other sites give the minutes values as a decimal, the Synscan handset requiring degrees and minutes ie 52 50N rather than 52.83N which the handset would reject.

[StargeezerTim]

This is the site I use http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html This one give the coordinates in degrees and minutes whereas many other sites give the minutes values as a decimal, the Synscan handset requiring degrees and minutes ie 52 50N rather than 52.83N which the handset would reject.

That is perfect...Thanks...

[jambouk]

And you don't need it to be precise. To the nearest degree or two is sufficient as long as you are not using the parking function and setting up fresh each time.

James