Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add relative position to the sun. #70

Open
jeenriquez opened this issue Dec 11, 2018 · 2 comments
Open

Add relative position to the sun. #70

jeenriquez opened this issue Dec 11, 2018 · 2 comments
Assignees

Comments

@jeenriquez
Copy link
Contributor

Describe the solution you'd like
Given the RA&Decl and time of the observation, calculate the angular distance to the sun (particularly if the observation is during the day).

Additional context
This is an important to know to calculate the scintillation effects caused by the IPM.

@telegraphic
Copy link
Contributor

There is some code in #34, and some code in http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/coordinates/solarsystem.html that could be used as a base to do this in astropy.

I would like to try and do all calculations with astropy, and get rid of pyslalib and pyephem if possible (although this is probably easier in pyephem!)

Who wants to take the lead on this? (I'm pretty busy atm)

For development, can we write this as a function that takes a blimpy.Waterfall object as its main argument? E.g. https://github.com/telegraphic/blimpy/blob/master/blimpy/ephemeris/compute_lst.py

@jeenriquez
Copy link
Contributor Author

Agree on astropy, and the type of function we want.
Also, no time from me atm. :)

@FX196 FX196 self-assigned this Jun 26, 2019
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

4 participants