Re: [Matplotlib-users] Calculating distance from center of Earth

2013-03-28 Thread John Gleeson
On 2013-03-28, at 7:29 AM, KURT PETERS wrote: > If I'm using this SGP4 library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sgp4/ > which provides x,y,z of a satellite with respect to the center of > the Earth, what do you think would be the best way to calculate the > distance from the satellite to a lat/l

[Matplotlib-users] Calculating distance from center of Earth

2013-03-28 Thread KURT PETERS
If I'm using this SGP4 library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sgp4/which provides x,y,z of a satellite with respect to the center of the Earth, what do you think would be the best way to calculate the distance from the satellite to a lat/long point on the Earth using MATPLOT library basemaps? I s