[AstroPy] great circle?

[Tom Aldcroft]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Abhijith Rajan <abhijithrajan@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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