pylunar 0.6.0

Information for completing the Astronomical League's Lunar and Lunar II observing programs.

Information for completing the Astronomical League’s Lunar and Lunar II observing programs.

Features

• Offer moon information based on location and date/time.

Documentation

The full documentation is at http://pylunar.rtfd.org.

History

0.6.0 (2020-04-07)

• Drop Python 2 and 3.4 and 3.5 support

• Add Python 3.7 and 3.8 support

• Change to 3-clause BSD license

• Switch to pytest from tox

• Add Github workflows for build and package upload

• Remove Travis

0.5.1 (2018-04-20)

• Add changelog updates

0.5.0 (2018-04-20)

• LunarFeature additions

  • Latitude and Longitude ranges

  • Feature angle

• MoonInfo additions

  • Libration phase angle

  • Libration visibility check

  • Updated is_visible to use libration visibility check

0.4.1 (2017-05-30)

• Corrected moon state after rise/set function call

• Made landing sites always visible once visible

0.4.0 (2017-05-28)

• Added landing sites to feature database

• Expanding LunarFeature content

• MoonInfo object additions

  • right ascension and declination

  • solar elongation

  • earth distance

  • rise, transit and set times

  • angular size

  • magnitude

  • sub-solar latitude

0.3.1 (2017-05-15)

• Ensure feature DB included in package

0.3.0 (2017-05-15)

• MoonInfo object additions

  • time of day

  • is feature visible

• LunarFeatureContainer object changes

  • Made constructor club related

  • Load call can check if feature is visible using MoonInfo instance

0.2.1 (2017-04-20)

• Changed mechanism to determine phase name

0.2.0 (2017-04-16)

• MoonInfo object additions

  • phase name

  • time from new moon

  • time to new moon

  • time to full moon

0.1.0 (2016-07-18)

• MoonInfo object that provides basic lunar information

  • age

  • altitude

  • azimuth

  • colongitude

  • fractional phase

  • libration latitude

  • libration longitude

  • next four lunar phases