B0#
- sunpy.coordinates.sun.B0(time='now')[source]#
Return the B0 angle for the Sun at a specified time, which is the heliographic latitude of the of the center of the disk of the Sun as seen from Earth. The range of B0 is +/-7.23 degrees.
- Equivalent definitions include:
The heliographic latitude of Earth
The tilt of the solar North rotational axis toward Earth
- Parameters:
time (
tuple
,list
,str
,pandas.Timestamp
,pandas.Series
,pandas.DatetimeIndex
,datetime.datetime
,datetime.date
,numpy.datetime64
,numpy.ndarray
,astropy.time.Time
) – Time to use in a parse_time-compatible format- Returns:
out (
Latitude
) – The position angle