NAME:
rhosc
PURPOSE: (one line only)
Compute rhosinp,rhocosp from observatory lat,alt
DESCRIPTION:
This is from a formalism used by Ted Bowell, the Minor Planet Center,
Larry Wasserman and probably others to compute topcentric X, Y, Z.
CATEGORY:
Astronomy
CALLING SEQUENCE:
rhosc,lat,alt,rhosinp,rhocosp
INPUTS:
lat - observatory latitude in WGS84 datum [radians] (scalar or vector)
alt - observatory altitude above reference datum [meters] (match lat)
OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS:
KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS:
OUTPUTS:
rhosinp - units and values as tabulated by MPC for observatories
rhocosp - units and values as tabulated by MPC for observatories
KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS:
COMMON BLOCKS:
SIDE EFFECTS:
RESTRICTIONS:
No protections on input for speed of computation
PROCEDURE:
MODIFICATION HISTORY:
Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute, 2019/10/21