CylindricalRepresentation

class astropy.coordinates.CylindricalRepresentation(rho, phi, z, copy=True)

Bases: astropy.coordinates.BaseRepresentation

Representation of points in 3D cylindrical coordinates.

Parameters:

rho : Quantity

The distance from the z axis to the point(s).

phi : Quantity

The azimuth of the point(s), in angular units, which will be wrapped to an angle between 0 and 360 degrees. This can also be instances of Angle,

z : Quantity

The z coordinate(s) of the point(s)

copy : bool, optional

If True arrays will be copied rather than referenced.

Attributes Summary

attr_classes
phi	The azimuth of the point(s).
recommended_units
rho	The distance of the point(s) from the z-axis.
z	The height of the point(s).

Methods Summary

from_cartesian(cart)	Converts 3D rectangular cartesian coordinates to cylindrical polar coordinates.
to_cartesian()	Converts cylindrical polar coordinates to 3D rectangular cartesian coordinates.

Attributes Documentation

attr_classes = OrderedDict([(u'rho', <class 'astropy.units.quantity.Quantity'>), (u'phi', <class 'astropy.coordinates.angles.Angle'>), (u'z', <class 'astropy.units.quantity.Quantity'>)])

phi

The azimuth of the point(s).

recommended_units = {u'phi': Unit("deg")}

rho

The distance of the point(s) from the z-axis.

z

The height of the point(s).

Methods Documentation

classmethod from_cartesian(cart)

Converts 3D rectangular cartesian coordinates to cylindrical polar coordinates.

to_cartesian()

Converts cylindrical polar coordinates to 3D rectangular cartesian coordinates.