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Templates

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Astronomical object articles need an infobox to show basic data about them. A complete list of the templates to be used is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes.

When filling in scientific data, you may find the following templates useful:

  • {{±|pos|neg}} which produces: +pos
    neg
    used thus: 500 +35
    −22
    km
    . (Avoid using it in a link, though: it looks bad)
  • {{e|n}} which produces: ×10n used thus: 5.97{{e|24}} kg, which gives 5.97×1024 kg.

The DEC and RA templates have been improved to allow the omission of the third argument to result in a less precise location that is useful in the case of galaxy groups. For example:

  • {{DEC|degrees|minutes}} which produces: degrees° minutes used thus: 23° 47′.
  • {{RA|hours|minutes}} which produces: hoursh minutesm used thus: 12h 17m .

Other useful templates: