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samtx / passpredict

Predict upcoming satellite overpasses over a point on Earth.
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Observer and Satellite MJD methods #45

Closed samtx closed 2 years ago

samtx commented 2 years ago

Use methods that take modified Julian date inputs for time to compute positions and coordinate transformations.

samtx commented 2 years ago

This work improves the performance of Observer.pass_list() by 1.5x according to asv benchmarks. On my computer, the compute time for computing overpasses of the ISS for 10 days using the standard orbital_predictor iterator dropped to 53.3ms from 76.3ms.