Add units to Orbital docs
Add the units for everything under https://pyorbital.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#pyorbital.orbital.Orbital .
Thanks for the suggestion, PRs are welcome.
Thanks for the suggestion, PRs are welcome.
What are the units supposed to be? m or km?
Related discussion for satpy: https://github.com/pytroll/satpy/issues/3182
This was reported by another use in #203 with examples:
get_positionis documented as returning "the cartesian position and velocity from the satellite". However, there are many different coordinate systems used for orbital mechanics, and a mix of different units used (metres and kilometres being most common).For example, taking a TLE for the ISS, I get values such as:
position: [ 0.360051 , -0.99710063, 0.09493735] velocity: [ 0.04398684, 0.01046155, -0.0561985 ]Which don't match either the magnitude or direction of the ECEF position and velocity reported by other tools for the same TLE and time:
position (km): [ 6435.89390019 -2073.16708531 605.52322922] velocity (km/s): [ 1.82908961 3.91010747 -5.97402701]
CC @DFEvans