planet.extremes: Extreme declinations for five visible planets

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planet.extremesR Documentation

Extreme declinations for five visible planets

Description

This function calculates the maximum and minimum declinations of the five visible planets for a given epoch. This is done by calculating the declination for one entire orbital period centred around the epoch.

Usage

planet.extremes(obj, epoch, loc = NULL)

Arguments

obj

The name of the planet.

epoch

Epoch for which to do calculations.

loc

(Optional) This can be either a skyscapeR.horizon object, or a vector with the latitude, longitude and elevation of the site, in this order.

Examples

planet.extremes('Jupiter', 2023)

planet.extremes('Venus', -4000)

f-silva-archaeo/skyscapeR documentation built on Sept. 24, 2023, 8:14 p.m.