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Abstraction Layer for Ephemerides (ALE)
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Determine a name for this library. #11

Closed kberryUSGS closed 5 years ago

kberryUSGS commented 5 years ago

Moving my comment from the closed PR:

The new library's name is currently set as usgsephem.

I'm sure this is intended as a preliminary name and I don't have any alternative suggestions, but, if someone said to me "here is an ephemeris software library from the usgs" I would expect to be able to use it to look up the position of an astronomical body, given a time. To be more explicit, I would expect to be able to do something like usgsephem.getCoord('Mars', 2018-01-01:01:01:01, 'J2000') This is not how I currently understand the purpose of this software library. Are we planning to do this and provide default ephemerides to use (de430, etc) ?

jessemapel commented 5 years ago

It's largely just a placeholder name I came up with in about 30 seconds. We need to find a better name.

kberryUSGS commented 5 years ago

@jessemapel :+1: I'll leave this ticket here as a "come up with a better name" ticket.

jessemapel commented 5 years ago

W.A.I.T. Where Am I aT

jessemapel commented 5 years ago

Arceus

jessemapel commented 5 years ago

E.A.L. Ephemeris Abstraction Library