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@rhannequin rhannequin commented May 19, 2024

Because the Moon is so close to the Earth, compared to other celestial bodies such stars or even planets of the Solar system, the geocentric parallax can have a big impact on its apparent location in the sky depending on the observer's topocentric location.

Here, apparent geocentric equatorial coordinates need to be converted into apparent topocentric equatorial coordinates, and then converted into horizontal coordinates.

This change introduces Moon#horizontal_coordinates which takes an Astronoby::Observer as parameter.

observer = Astronoby::Observer.new(
  latitude: Astronoby::Angle.from_degrees(-20),
  longitude: Astronoby::Angle.from_degrees(-30)
)
moon = Astronoby::Moon.new(time: Time.new(2010, 5, 15, 14, 30, 0, "-04:00"))

coordinates = moon.horizontal_coordinates(observer: observer)

coordinates.altitude.str(:dms)
# => "+25° 52′ 49.8989″"

coordinates.azimuth.str(:dms)
# => "+313° 26′ 5.3866″"

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@rhannequin rhannequin merged commit 147caee into main May 24, 2024
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rhannequin added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 11, 2024
 ## 0.5.0 - 2024-06-11

_If you are upgrading: please see [UPGRADING.md]._

[UPGRADING.md]: https://github.com/rhannequin/astronoby/blob/main/UPGRADING.md

 ### Features

* Make `Sun#mean_anomaly` public ([#72])
* Moon ecliptic coordinates ([#73])
* Moon apparent geocentric equatorial coordinates ([#75])
* Moon horizontal coordinates ([#76])
* Assume Moon's equatorial coordinates are geocentric ([#77])
* Use observer object for geocentric parallax ([#79])
* Moon's phase angle and illuminated fraction ([#80])
* Monthly Moon phases ([#82])
* Rationalize negative degree angles ([#83])
* Factorize Moon phases periodic terms ([#85])
* Introduce observation events for Moon ([#86])

[#72]: #72
[#73]: #73
[#75]: #75
[#76]: #76
[#77]: #77
[#79]: #79
[#80]: #80
[#82]: #82
[#83]: #83
[#85]: #85
[#86]: #86

 ### Improvements

* Create FUNDING.yml ([#70])
* Bump standard from 1.35.1 to 1.36.0 ([#71])
* Bump rexml from 3.2.6 to 3.2.8 ([#74])
* Expand the number of tested Ruby versions ([#84])
* Add Ruby 3.1.6 and 3.3.2 coverage ([#88])
* Improve and update documentation ([#87])
* Update UPGRADING.md ([#89])

[#70]: #70
[#71]: #71
[#74]: #74
[#84]: #84
[#88]: #88
[#87]: #87
[#89]: #89

 ### Backward-incompatible changes

* Use Observer in Horizontal coordinates ([#69])
* Introduce `Astronoby::Distance` value object ([#78])

[#69]: #69
[#78]: #78

**Full Changelog**: v0.4.0...v0.5.0
rhannequin added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 11, 2024
### Features

* Make `Sun#mean_anomaly` public ([#72])
* Moon ecliptic coordinates ([#73])
* Moon apparent geocentric equatorial coordinates ([#75])
* Moon horizontal coordinates ([#76])
* Assume Moon's equatorial coordinates are geocentric ([#77])
* Use observer object for geocentric parallax ([#79])
* Moon's phase angle and illuminated fraction ([#80])
* Monthly Moon phases ([#82])
* Rationalize negative degree angles ([#83])
* Factorize Moon phases periodic terms ([#85])
* Introduce observation events for Moon ([#86])

[#72]: #72
[#73]: #73
[#75]: #75
[#76]: #76
[#77]: #77
[#79]: #79
[#80]: #80
[#82]: #82
[#83]: #83
[#85]: #85
[#86]: #86

### Improvements

* Create FUNDING.yml ([#70])
* Bump standard from 1.35.1 to 1.36.0 ([#71])
* Bump rexml from 3.2.6 to 3.2.8 ([#74])
* Expand the number of tested Ruby versions ([#84])
* Add Ruby 3.1.6 and 3.3.2 coverage ([#88])
* Improve and update documentation ([#87])
* Update UPGRADING.md ([#89])

[#70]: #70
[#71]: #71
[#74]: #74
[#84]: #84
[#88]: #88
[#87]: #87
[#89]: #89

### Backward-incompatible changes

* Use Observer in Horizontal coordinates ([#69])
* Introduce `Astronoby::Distance` value object ([#78])

[#69]: #69
[#78]: #78

**Full Changelog**: v0.4.0...v0.5.0
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