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spacepy.irbempy.car2sph(CARin)

coordinate transformation from cartesian to spherical

Parameters:

- CARin (list or ndarray) : coordinate points in (n,3) shape with n coordinate points in

units of [Re, Re, Re] = [x,y,z]

Returns:

- results (ndarray) : values after conversion to spherical coordinates in

radius, latitude, longitude in units of [Re, deg, deg]

See also

sph2car

Examples

>>> sph2car([1,45,0])
array([ 0.70710678,  0.        ,  0.70710678])