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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

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Reference · Pure coordinate conversions

SphericalAutype

Spherical coordinates: longitude [0,360), latitude [-90,90], radius in AU.

Import it

import type { SphericalAu } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/coordinates";

Definition

interface SphericalAu extends CoordinateContext {
    longitude: number;
    latitude: number;
    distanceAu: number;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
longitudenumber
latitudenumber
distanceAunumber
originCoordinateOrigin
frameCoordinateFrame
epochnumber | "J2000"
corrections"geometric"

Examples

import { cartesianToSpherical, type SphericalAu } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/coordinates";
const value: SphericalAu = cartesianToSpherical({ origin: "heliocentric", frame: "eclipticJ2000", epoch: "J2000", corrections: "geometric", xAu: 0, yAu: 1, zAu: 0 });
console.log(value);
{
  origin: 'heliocentric',
  frame: 'eclipticJ2000',
  epoch: 'J2000',
  corrections: 'geometric',
  longitude: 90,
  latitude: 0,
  distanceAu: 1
}

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.