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What geodetic system is used? #25

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bharding512 opened this issue Dec 12, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #45
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What geodetic system is used? #25

bharding512 opened this issue Dec 12, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #45
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@bharding512
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First off, let me say thanks for an incredibly useful module.

I understand that apexpy converts coordinates and vectors between a geodetic coordinate system and various magnetic coordinate systems. But what geodetic system is used? To what reference ellipsoid should I interpret the geodetic latitude and altitude? WGS84?

I assume the answer is, "whatever geodetic system Emmert et al (2010) used", but I couldn't find the answer in that paper or in Richmond (1995) and Laundal and Richmond (2017). Thanks for any help you can give.

@klaundal
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It is WGS84

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Thanks for the questions and answers! I'm going to keep this issue open as a reminder to put the information into the docs.

@aburrell aburrell added the documentation Documentation changes label Dec 14, 2020
@aburrell aburrell added this to the 1.1.0 release milestone Feb 9, 2021
gregstarr added a commit to gregstarr/apexpy that referenced this issue Feb 12, 2021
adding a note to the `Apex` class to address aburrell#25
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