<p>I found on your site a formula to make this conversion,
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/ja6Pf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ja6Pf.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>a person helped me to insert it in an excel of which I put you the link.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D24hvHLHmbnnBU7aBrTs12jZM6TVuvwB/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=100540662414282362845&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D24hvHLHmbnnBU7aBrTs12jZM6TVuvwB/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=100540662414282362845&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true</a></p>
<p>I use it in a video game called Elite Dangerous which I really like.</p>
<p>In this one you can use Cartesian coordinates to locate yourself, the developers have incorporated 150,000 irl stars which are placed in the right place, I find that huge.</p>
<p>I use an edsm site which pulls game data like galactic and cartesian coordinates. <a href="https://www.edsm.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.edsm.net/</a></p>
<p>So thanks to this formula I was able to find irl stars by using its galactic coordinates to find it in game.</p>
<p>Other stars were generated randomly and also have galactic and Cartesian coordinates, so I used the data retrieved from edsm to see if this formula could give me exactly the same results.</p>
<p>for example :
Beagle point is located at: -1111.5625 / -134.21875 / 65269.75</p>
<p>Galactic coordinates: R: 65,279.352 / l: 0.976 / b: -0.118</p>
<p>Deeli's point ( hip 7) is located at: -135.5 / -124.125 / -43.21875</p>
<p>Galactic coordinates: R: 188.773 / l: 107.690 / b: -41.112</p>
<p>The results are not identical but very similar, so I wondered which formula the developers had used and if I could find it or correct the one I used to achieve the same results.</p>
<p>I search an better formula.</p>
<p>Sorry if this seems strange to you, getting interested in this game made me interested in a lot of things in astronomy. I would like to learn and understand always more, even if I have very little notion in mathematics</p>
<p>Sorry for the syntax, English is not my native language</p>

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I don't understand.
Deko Revinio
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Sorry i do it. Do you prefer short question ?
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Transforming galactic coordinates in Cartesian coordinates better formula?
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# Transforming galactic coordinates in Cartesian coordinates better formula?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-02-03)

I found on your site a formula to make this conversion,
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/ja6Pf.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/ja6Pf.png)

a person helped me to insert it in an excel of which I put you the link.
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D24hvHLHmbnnBU7aBrTs12jZM6TVuvwB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100540662414282362845&rtpof=true&sd=true>

I use it in a video game called Elite Dangerous which I really like.

In this one you can use Cartesian coordinates to locate yourself, the developers have incorporated 150,000 irl stars which are placed in the right place, I find that huge.

I use an edsm site which pulls game data like galactic and cartesian coordinates. <https://www.edsm.net/>

So thanks to this formula I was able to find irl stars by using its galactic coordinates to find it in game.

Other stars were generated randomly and also have galactic and Cartesian coordinates, so I used the data retrieved from edsm to see if this formula could give me exactly the same results.

for example :
Beagle point is located at: -1111.5625 / -134.21875 / 65269.75

Galactic coordinates: R: 65,279.352 / l: 0.976 / b: -0.118

Deeli's point ( hip 7) is located at: -135.5 / -124.125 / -43.21875

Galactic coordinates: R: 188.773 / l: 107.690 / b: -41.112

The results are not identical but very similar, so I wondered which formula the developers had used and if I could find it or correct the one I used to achieve the same results.

I search an better formula.

Sorry if this seems strange to you, getting interested in this game made me interested in a lot of things in astronomy. I would like to learn and understand always more, even if I have very little notion in mathematics

Sorry for the syntax, English is not my native language

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I don't understand.  
> **username_2**: Welcome to Stack Exchange! Here it is necessary to ask a specific question that can have a correct answer. Can you click "edit" and update this to make it into such a question? Thanks!  
> **username_0**: Sorry i do it. Do you prefer short question ?  

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