ortk95 / planetmapper

PlanetMapper: An open source Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations
https://planetmapper.readthedocs.io
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Improve customisation of coordinate transformations (e.g. add `alt` to `lonlat2...` transforms) #359

Closed ortk95 closed 3 months ago

ortk95 commented 3 months ago

Internally, a number of coordinate transformations have additional parameters, that we should expose in the public API.

In particular, we should add an altitude keyword-only parameter to the lonlat2... transformations for e.g. plotting features like auroral ovals that aren't on the planet's "surface". We already have an alt argument in the private _lonlat2targvec_radians, so this should be a straightforward change.