nighshift

A Python package to compute and visualize observation metrics for periodic events. In Astronomy, nighshift is useful to answer the following questions:

• How much of an orbit with period \(P\) has been observed given certain observation times? (tutorial)

• What period \(P\) matches with this list of events? (tutorial)

• How a certain target must be observed to cover all orbits with periods lower than \(P\) days?

Table of content

Get started

• Installation
• Acknowledgement

Tutorials

• Period matching
  • Data simulation
  • Finding optimal period
• Phase coverage
  • Simulating some data
  • Computing the phase coverage
  • Application

Reference

• API
  • coverage()
  • period_match()