Constellation Finder

Constellation Finder

Constellation Finder, written in JavaScript, originated out of a frustration while researching articles I was writing contained sky coordinates (right ascension and declination) but often lacked the constellation. Taking code I wrote in about 2000 to see if a coordinate was inside a bounding box on the ground, I reworked it to use stellar coordinates. The result is a user can input RA and Decl and the site will output the object’s constellation with some information. I plan on migrating this web app to mobile in the near future.