position_angle¶
-
astropy.coordinates.
position_angle
(lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2)[source]¶ Position Angle (East of North) between two points on a sphere.
- Parameters
- Returns
- pa
Angle
The (positive) position angle of the vector pointing from position 1 to position 2. If any of the angles are arrays, this will contain an array following the appropriate
numpy
broadcasting rules.
- pa