[AstroPy] great circle?

[Abhijith Rajan]

Excellent. Thanks :).

Abhi

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Tom Aldcroft <aldcroft at head.cfa.harvard.edu
> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Abhijith Rajan <abhijithrajan at asu.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wondering if there is a convenient python module to compute the
> great
> > circle distance similar to gcirc.pro in IDL?
>
> Yes, use the separation() method in astropy.coordinates:
>
>   http://docs.astropy.org/en/v0.2/coordinates/separations.html
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Abhi
> >
> > p.s: I realize its only ~10 lines of code and I plan to implement it for
> my
> > immediate needs.
> >
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