obstools.celestial_time module

Celestial Time Utilities Module

LDTObserverTools contains python ports of the various DeVeny IDL routines

Lowell Discovery Telescope (Lowell Observatory: Flagstaff, AZ) https://lowell.edu

This file contains various celestial time utilities for LDT.

obstools.celestial_time.lst_midnight(utdates: list[str]) → ndarray

Compute the LST at midnight for LDT on a list of UT dates

The “LST at Midnight” is a helpful guide for determining what objects may be observable on a given night. This routine returns this value for the LDT given the input UT dates.

Parameters:

utdates (list) – List of (str) UT dates for which to compute the LST at midnight. Each date must be of the form “YYYY-MM-DD”

Returns:

ndarray – Array of the output LST in HH:MM:SS format