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