obsutil Sketches

ObsUtil Sketches

A collection of tools for observation planning of small body observations.

from sbpy.Data import Ephemerides

comet = Ephemerides.from_mpc('249P', '568', 
                           {'start': '2018-10-01', 
                            'stop':'2018-10-05', 
                            'step':'20m'}, 
                           skip_daylight=True)
asteroid = Ephemerides.from_mpc('ceres', '568', 
                                {'start': '2018-10-01', 
                                 'stop':'2018-10-05', 
                                 'step':'20m'}, 
                                skip_daylight=True)

# plot observability and show on screen
from sbpy import ObsUtil as obs
plot = obs.plot([comet, asteroid])
plot.show()

# create observing script
script = obs.script([comet, asteroid])

# create finder charts and save to file
chart = obs.chart(comet, invert=True, 
                  show_track=True, 
                  show_uncertainties=True,
                  show_grid=True,
                  show_vectors=True)
chart.savefig('249P.png')