noao

Top level of the noao package, only contains the task observatory.

Notes

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Observatory is the only task on the top noao module level. See the Python example below.

observatory

The observatory task will return various information about an observatory location. This task is included in Astropy as the astropy.coordinates.EarthLocation class. See the doc pages here and here for more information.

# Astronomy Specific Imports
from astropy.coordinates import EarthLocation

EarthLocation.of_site('Apache Point Observatory')

\[(-1463969.3, -5166673.3, 3434985.7) \; \mathrm{m}\]