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Update nightshade.py to allow user-defined sub-solar coordinates #2375
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This allows for the specification of the sub solar coordinates directly, rather than calculating them using the date. This increases the usefulness of nightshade to those of us using cartopy for non-Earth bodies.
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I think this makes sense in general to be able to use the functionality on different bodies. I am not sure the best approach for providing either a date or a sub-solar point, but this seems reasonable.
You should also add a few tests making sure it is producing the values you expect.
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Minor nits. Looks like pre-commit is complaining about trailing whitespace (might be the line I pointed out). Feature seems like a nice add.
The documentation should still be adjusted here (main docstring still says "Shade the darkside of the Earth..."; which is no longer true for Nightshade, but is still true that_solar_position is specific to Earth). |
@dsheward-astro, would you be able to add a quick test for this? Let me know if you want any pointers for where to add it. I also see that you added the subsolar point as |
This allows for the specification of the sub solar coordinates directly, rather than calculating them using the date. This increases the usefulness of nightshade to those of us using cartopy for non-Earth bodies.
Rationale
Currently Nightshade produces the shade based off the sub-solar point at a defined time, based on the Earth. As cartopy is used for modelling other solar-system bodies, such as the Moon, which will have differing sub-solar points at a given time, the current use case for Nightshade is exclusive to the Earth. By allowing for user-defined sub-solar coordinates, this use case is extended to any sphere.
Implications
Nightshade is now also useable for Non-Earth bodies