Progress in allsky search of EXPLORER data
Galactic coordinates

This is just another presentation of the same search progress as described on the main page. Here below shown are both the galactic hemispheres in the 'conic' projection, the upper being northern and lower southern half of the sphere. The galactic poles are at the circle centers and the galactic longitude is counted clockwise from 0 to 360 degrees (at the bottom) on the northern hemisphere. The southern half has this coordinate with the origin at the top and counted counterclockwise. The latitude circles are drawn every 10 degrees. As in the case of equatorial coordinates, areas already searched in our project are depicted by dark red and light red dots corresponding to odd and even numbered jobs (PCs), respectively. Perhaps it is worth reminding that the center of our Galaxy is located at the origin of galactic coordinates, i.e. at the bottom point of the top image and at the top of the other one, while the galactic equator coincides with the outermost latitude circle (i.e. the disk edges) of both the hemispheres.

These composite images were obtained by merging our plots of the grids and progress dots with maps created separately with the help of another program, a useful freeware StarCalc, v. 5.6, by Alexander Zavalishin.