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')