Tracking non-sidereal objectasuch as the Moon or Jupiter

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extract TEC, vTEC, Earthmagnetic field and Rotation Measures from GPS and WMM data for radio interferometry observations

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Tracking non-sidereal objectasuch as the Moon or Jupiter #59

Open twillis449 opened 2 months ago

twillis449 commented 2 months ago

I don't think RMextract provides an option to track non-sidereal object such as the Moon in the PosTools code. But it would be nice to have.

tremou commented 2 months ago

that would be great indeed. Just in case someone needs a quick work around with astropy:

from astropy.coordinates import solar_system_ephemeris, EarthLocation
from astropy.coordinates import get_body_barycentric, get_body

with solar_system_ephemeris.set('builtin'):
    moon = get_body('moon', t, vla)
    #print(moon.ra,moon.dec,t)
    d=moon.ra.rad,moon.dec.rad

maaijke commented 2 months ago

I will take it into account in the update