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measures.cometangdiam - Function

1.4.1 get the angular diameter of the current comet in the current frame


Description

cometdist returns the angular diameter (as seen from Earth) in AU of the current comet in the current frame, as a quantity. It will return -1 radians on failure!

Arguments

Inputs

Returns
record

Example

 
 
print "\t----\t cometangdiam Ex 1 \t----"  
# Directory with several Solar System ephemerides for setjy.  
cometdir = os.getenv("CASAPATH").split()[0] + "/data/ephemerides/JPL-Horizons/"  
me.framecomet(cometdir + "Ganymede_55438-56292dUTC.tab")  
#  Out[5]: True  
me.doframe(me.epoch("utc", "2011/01/03/17:00:00"))  
me.doframe(me.observatory("ALMA"))  
gad = me.cometangdiam()  
print gad  
# {’unit’: ’rad’, ’value’: 6.8679673431729014e-06}  
 

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