Version 1.8.3

Issues Closed

• Issue 151 - Issue Calculating Accurate View Zenith Angles on Terra Satellite Overpasses

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 156 - Fix dtype preservation in astronomy functions

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

Version 1.8.2 (2024/02/05)

Issues Closed

• Issue 140 - pyorbital cannot read TLE for MTG-I1 / Meteosat-12 (PR 141 by @gerritholl)
• Issue 139 - Orbital cannot get TLEs from the internet

In this release 2 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 143 - Fix a bug in using TLES env variable

Features added

• PR 141 - Add Meteosat-12 to platforms.txt (140)

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.8.1

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 138 - Update celestrak urls (139)

Features added

• PR 137 - Prettify the RTD pages

Documentation changes

• PR 137 - Prettify the RTD pages
• PR 132 - Add .readthedocs.yaml

In this release 4 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.8.0

Issues Closed

• Issue 112 - Is the TLES environment variable described? (PR 113 by @adybbroe)

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 129 - Fix bug getting local tlefiles
• PR 128 - Fix typo in VIIRS geoloc definition
• PR 121 - fixed geoloc_example and added variable descriptions

Features added

• PR 120 - Update versioneer to stop using deprecated distutils module.
• PR 113 - Make use of env variables free from satpy (112)

Documentation changes

• PR 113 - Make use of env variables free from satpy (112)

In this release 6 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.7.3

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 103 - www.celestrak.org → celestrak.org (101)

Documentation changes

• PR 104 - Fixed comment in sun_earth_distance_correction

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.7.2

Issues Closed

• Issue 100 - TLE URIs land at redirect page (PR 101 by @gerritholl)
• Issue 97 - sun_earth_distance_correction returns the square of the sun-earth distance relativ to 1 AU (PR 99 by @depion)

In this release 2 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 101 - Update celestrak URIs (100)
• PR 99 - Fixed earth sun distance (97)

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.7.1 (2021/12/22)

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 92 - Fix bogus designator assignment

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

Version 1.7.0 (2021/12/20)

Issues Closed

• Issue 90 - get_observer_look raises IndexError on numpy 1.21.4
• Issue 85 - Azimuth/elevation output not changing with 1-second increments
• Issue 79 - ModuleNotFoundError: 'pyorbital' is not a package
• Issue 72 - Unexpected Nans in get_observer_look_no_tle
• Issue 38 - Issue with pyorbital.planets

In this release 5 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Features added

• PR 91 - Add get_observer_look test for scalar case and update stickler config (91)
• PR 89 - Change tested Python versions to 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10
• PR 83 - Add Sentinel-5P to platform_names
• PR 78 - Add parser to read TLEs from Multi Mission Administrative Messages

Documentation changes

• PR 82 - Add historical TLE files link

In this release 5 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.6.1 (2021/04/12)

Issues Closed

• Issue 63 - Runtime error in get_next_passes (PR 64)
• Issue 62 - can this tool run
• Issue 22 - get_next_passes returns max-elevation-time time not between rise & fall time (PR 76)

In this release 3 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 76 - Fix parabolic estimation (22)
• PR 65 - Add requests to the requirements
• PR 64 - Fix inappropriate runtime warning (63)
• PR 60 - Skip tests if data are not available
• PR 59 - Fix tests on i386

Features added

• PR 75 - Fix numpy deprecation warnings
• PR 67 - Added CALIPSO among platforms

In this release 7 pull requests were closed.