1.4.1.0 measures.doframe

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measures.doframe - Function

1.4.1 save a measure as frame reference

Description

doframe will set the measure specified as part of a frame.

If conversion from one type to another is necessary, with the measure function, the following frames should be set if one of the reference types involved in the conversion is as in the following lists.
Epoch UTC TAI LAST position LMST position GMST1 GAST UT1 UT2 TDT TCG TDB TCD

Direction

J2000 JMEAN epoch JTRUE epoch APP epoch B1950 BMEAN epoch BTRUE epoch GALACTIC HADEC epoch position AZEL epoch position SUPERGALACTIC ECLIPTIC MECLIPTIC epoch TECLIPTIC epoch PLANET epoch [position]

Position

WGS84 ITRF

Radial Velocity

LSRK direction LSRD direction BARY direction GEO direction epoch TOPO direction epoch position GALACTO direction

Doppler

RADIO OPTICAL Z RATIO RELATIVISTIC BETA GAMMA

Frequency

REST direction radialvelocity LSRK direction LSRD direction BARY direction GEO direction epoch TOPO direction epoch position GALACTO

Arguments


Inputs
v	measure to be set in frame
	allowed:	record
	Default:

Returns
bool

Example

print "\t----\t doframe Ex 1 \t----"
a = me.epoch(’utc’, ’today’) # a time
print a
#{’m0’: {’value’: 54054.91671484954, ’unit’: ’d’},
# ’refer’: ’UTC’,
# ’type’: ’epoch’}
print me.doframe(a) # set time in frame
#True

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