AstroUtilities Class

ASCOM support utilities

Definition

Namespace: ASCOM.Tools
Assembly: ASCOM.AstrometryTools (in ASCOM.AstrometryTools.dll) Version: 2.2.1+77356f79b05b579f6d860a4edd5934fda9fe29e4

C#

public class AstroUtilities : IDisposable

VB

Public Class AstroUtilities
	Implements IDisposable

Initializes a new instance of the AstroUtilities class

JulianDateUtc	Current Julian date based on the UTC time scale
LeapSeconds	Current number of leap seconds

Almanac	Create a one year almanac for the given event, year and location.
DeltaT	Returns the value of DeltaT (Terrestrial time minus Universal Time = TT-UT1) at the given Julian date.
Dispose	Dispose of the Utilities object
EventTimes	Function that returns a list of rise and set events of a particular type that occur on a particular day at a given latitude, longitude and time zone
JulianDateFromDateTime	Calculate the Julian date from a provided DateTime value. The value is assumed to be a UTC time
JulianDateToDateTime	Convert a Julian date to a UTC DateTime value on the Gregorian time scale
MoonIllumination	Returns the fraction of the Moon's surface that is illuminated
MoonPhase	Returns the Moon phase as an angle
SetLeapSeconds	Set the current number of leap seconds (overrides the built-in leap second value)
SetLogger	Assign a logger instance to the NOVAS component

Supported in: 2.0