barak.coord.s2dec¶

barak.coord.s2dec(ra, dec)[source]¶

Convert sexigesimal ra and dec strings (or list of ras and decs) to decimal degrees.

Parameters :	ra, dec: str or arrays of str, shape (N,) : The RA and Dec in ‘hour:min:s’ ‘deg:min:s’ format. Separators may be whitespace, colons, ‘h’, ‘m’, ‘s’ or ‘d’.
Returns :	ra, dec: floats or arrays of floats, shape (N,) : The RA and Dec in degrees.

Examples

>>> s2dec('02h59m00.56s', '-80d10m04.3s')
(44.75233333333333, -80.16786111111112)

>>> sras = ['10:12:01.25', '10:14:06.13']
>>> sdecs =['01:01:45.65', '01:13:47.02']
>>> ra, dec = s2dec(sras, sdecs)
>>> print zip(ra, dec)
[(153.00520833333334, 1.0293472222222222),
(153.52554166666667, 1.229727777777778)]