pylunar 0.4.0

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 off location and date/time.

Documentation

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

History

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