Mercury 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(2018, 10, 27.0)
lon, lat, r = Mercury.geometric_heliocentric_position(epoch)
print_me("Geometric Heliocentric Longitude", lon.to_positive())
# Geometric Heliocentric Longitude: 287.4887
print_me("Geometric Heliocentric Latitude", lat)
# Geometric Heliocentric Latitude: -6.0086
print_me("Radius vector", r)
# Radius vector: 0.45113