healpix_geo.ring.healpix_to_lonlat#

healpix_geo.ring.healpix_to_lonlat(ipix, depth, ellipsoid='sphere', num_threads=0)#

Get the longitudes and latitudes of the center of some HEALPix cells.

Parameters:

  • ipix (numpy.ndarray) – The HEALPix cell indexes given as a np.uint64 numpy array.

  • depth (numpy.ndarray) – The HEALPix cell depth given as a np.uint8 numpy array.

  • ellipsoid (str, default: "sphere") – Reference ellipsoid to evaluate healpix on. If "sphere", this will return the same result as cdshealpix.ring.healpix_to_lonlat().

  • num_threads (int, optional) – Specifies the number of threads to use for the computation. Default to 0 means it will choose the number of threads based on the RAYON_NUM_THREADS environment variable (if set), or the number of logical CPUs (otherwise)

Returns:

lon, lat (numpy.ndarray) – The coordinates of the center of the HEALPix cells given as a longitude, latitude tuple.

Raises:

  • ValueError – When the HEALPix cell indexes given have values out of \([0, 4^{29 - depth}[\).

  • ValueError – When the name of the ellipsoid is unknown.

Examples

>>> from healpix_geo.ring import healpix_to_lonlat
>>> import numpy as np
>>> ipix = np.array([42, 6, 10])
>>> depth = 3
>>> lon, lat = healpix_to_lonlat(ipix, depth, ellipsoid="WGS84")
>>> lon
array([ 45. , 112.5, 292.5])
>>> lat
array([60.54441647, 78.33504545, 78.33504545])