Galactic¶

class astropy.coordinates.Galactic(*args, **kwargs)[source] [edit on github]¶

Galactic Coordinates.

Parameters:

representation : BaseRepresentation or None

A representation object or None to have no data (or use the other keywords)

l : Angle, optional, must be keyword

The Galactic longitude for this object (b must also be given and representation must be None).

b : Angle, optional, must be keyword

The Galactic latitude for this object (l must also be given and representation must be None).

distance : Quantity, optional, must be keyword

The Distance for this object along the line-of-sight.

Attributes Summary

`default_representation`
`frame_specific_representation_info`
`name`

Attributes Documentation