Topic summaryEcliptic coordinates Expand Summary Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ecliptic coordinate system. Conversion from ecliptic coordinates to equatorial coordinates[xequatorialyequatorialzequatorial]=[1000cosε−sinε0sinεcosε][xeclipticyeclipticzecliptic]{\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}x_{\text{equatorial}}\\y_{\text{equatorial}}\\z_{\text{equatorial}}\\\end{bmatrix}}={\begin{bmatrix}1&0&0\\0&\cos \varepsilon &-\sin \varepsilon \\0&\sin \varepsilon &\cos \varepsilon \\\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}x_{\text{ecliptic}}\\y_{\text{ecliptic}}\\z_{\text{ecliptic}}\\\end{bmatrix}}} Wikipedia source