NAME: appuldis PURPOSE: (one line only) Find the circumstances of an appulse between a star and a solar system object DESCRIPTION: Given the ephemeris The approximate time of the appulse must be within +/-30 minutes or this will fail. CATEGORY: Astronomy CALLING SEQUENCE: appuldis,objcode,obscode,jd,ra,dec,jdmin,sep INPUTS: objcode - Standard object code (see ephem.pro) obscode - Standard observatory code or a structure with the observatory information. WGS84 assumed. name - name of observatory lat - latitude of observatory (radians) lon - west longitude of observatory (radians) alt - altitude of observatory (meters) jd - Approximate time of appulse ra - right ascension of the star, J2000 dec - declination of the star, J2000 OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS: KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS: ET - Flag, if set, all times are in Ephemeris Time, default is UTC This is most important for the output. You can get away with inputing either. VERBOSE - Flag, if set, prints information about event to terminal STARERR - Star position uncertainty (arcsec), default is 0.050 arcsec PREDERR - You can override the ephemeris error based calculation of the event errors with this. Provide a two element vector: [xtrackerr,time_err] where xtrackerr is the cross-track 1-sigma uncertainty in km and time_err is the down-track 1-sigma uncertainty in seconds. This is optional for 'A' objects but required for 'P' objects. OBJNAME - Object name. This is optional for 'A' objects but required for 'P' objects with the verbose option. IN_HV - Hv value to use for the object. Unsed only if OBJNAME is supplied. If not provided and OBJNAME is, this value defaults to 10 SUPP - optional anonymous structure that contains extra information about the object. This can be used either to override the standard information, or to provide missing information in cases where a spice kernel is being used. Tags required are: name: descriptive name the way you want to see it diameter: size of object in km hv: absolute magnitude of object albedo: albedo for surface etrack: 1-sigma uncertainty in cross-track position [km] etime: 1-sigma uncertainty in the down-track position [seconds] This takes precedence over any other sources of information OUTPUTS: jdmin - Time of the minimum separation sep - Separation between star and object at jdmin (arcsec) If you get a negative number it means the search was not successful in finding a minimum near the input time. KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS: info - Anonymous structure with auxillary information about the object at the time of the minimum separation. objname - Full name/designation of object jd - Time of close approach hv - Absolute magnitude of object et - Flag, set if time is ET minsep - separate at close approach time (arcsec) pa - Position angle of object wrt star at minimum separation sun - Heliocentric distance of object earth - topocentric distance of object phang - phase angle (degrees) selong - solar elongation (degrees) melong - lunar elongation (degrees) mphase - Lunar phase kmscale - scale on plane of sky in km/arcsec oam - Airmass of object at time of event oalt - object elevation (degrees) oaz - object azimuth, westward from south salt - solar elevation (degrees) malt - lunar elevation (degrees) speed - projected speed of object relative to the star (km/sec) rate - projected speed of object ralative to the star (arcsec/hr) diam1 - Diameter of object assuming 5% albedo (km) diam2 - Diameter of object assuming 30% albedo (km) chord1 - Maximum occultation duration assuming a 5% albedo size chord2 - Maximum occultation duration assuming a 30% albedo size angsha - Position angle of track on the plane of the sky, E of N etime - 1-sigma error in event time (seconds) etrack - 1-sigma error in cross-track position (km) coverage - Fraction of the 1-sigma cross track error that could be covered if track is centered on network err - 1-sigma ephemeris uncertainty for the object at the time of the close approach in arcsec errkm - 1-sigma ephemeris uncertainty in km. COMMON BLOCKS: SIDE EFFECTS: RESTRICTIONS: PROCEDURE: MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute, 2015/03/07 2015/09/24, MWB, Added position angle output 2019/10/11, MWB, Added PREDERR option 2019/12/30, MWB, Added OBJNAME keyword 2020/03/25, MWB, Avoid computing ephemeris error for P objects. 2020/11/18, MWB, fixed bug introduced with OBJNAME keyword, fix includes the new IN_HV keyword 2022/01/11, MWB, added summary printout information to returned structure 2023/07/24, MWB, added SUPP keyword 2024/04/21, MWB, added vmag and gtarg to returned structure 2024/07/06, MWB, rework for new obs tools 2024/11/15, MWB, changed time range for appulse search from +/-2h to 3