[AstroPy] Setting and Rising time in Astropy 1.0

[Christoph Deil]

> On 13 Mar 2015, at 10:08, Akshat Singhal <akshat.singhal014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> How can one calculate setting and rising time of star ( with given RA-Dec) from 
>  a location at given time?
> That is from a given location and time of an observer , how to compute when
> will an object (say Sun or star with known coordinates) will rise or set at horizon.
> 
> Any insight to it will be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Akshat SInghal
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Hi Akshat,

PyEphem has methods to compute the previous and next transit, rising, setting time:
http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/quick.html#transit-rising-setting <http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/quick.html#transit-rising-setting>

Christoph
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