[AstroPy] point in ellipse

[gonghang.naoc]

Thank you very much. http://dsberry.github.com/starlink/node1.html is
helpful.
Hang

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Perry Greenfield <perry at stsci.edu>wrote:
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>> Sure.
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>> But I'm assuming you wanted more than that. I presume you are looking for
>> a function to test if a coordinate (or array of coordinates) lies inside
>> the ellipse or not. Yes, that can be done analytically. You want a python
>> function that does that specifically? (No, I don't have one handy, but it
>> shouldn't be hard to code).
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> pyast has this built in. Create an ellipse object and then ask whether a
> position (or set of positions) is inside or outside it.
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> Tim Jenness
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