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Different ways to calculate the longitude
See original GitHub issueI am not sure if this is a bug or a misundersting from my side (probably the last_
I am trying to calculate the longitude of a planet and I get different results in if I do
osculating_elements_of((planet - sun).at(t).true_longitude or (planet - sun).at(t).ecliptic_latlon()[1]
I thought it might be a problem with the equinox, so I calculated the difference between the longitude for two planets and still both methods do not match.
Any ideas?
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I appreciate the time you spent answering this. I will try to convert between the two planes to see if I can recover that.
In the meantime I’m going to close this issue since it’s not currently pending any action to be taken in Skyfield’s code. Feel free to continue the discussion here by commenting further, though!