Venus examples¶
Let’s define a small helper function:
def print_me(msg, val):
print("{}: {}".format(msg, val))
We can compute the geometric heliocentric position for a given epoch:
epoch = Epoch(1992, 12, 20.0)
lon, lat, r = Venus.geometric_heliocentric_position(epoch)
print_me("Geometric Heliocentric Longitude", round(lon.to_positive(), 5))
# Geometric Heliocentric Longitude: 26.11428
print_me("Geometric Heliocentric Latitude", round(lat, 4))
# Geometric Heliocentric Latitude: -2.6207
print_me("Radius vector", round(r, 6))
# Radius vector: 0.724603