Astro:...::Hour(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, we're on the user-contributed Perl documentation page for Astro:...::Hour(3pm), and the actual star of the show is Astro::Coords::Angle::Hour — Representation of an angle in units of hours. 💖✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  use Astro::Coords::Angle::Hour;

  $ha = new Astro::Coords::Angle::Hour( "12h30m22.4s", units => 'sex');
  $ha = new Astro::Coords::Angle::Hour( 12.53, units => 'hour);

  $ha = new Astro::Coords::Angle::Hour( 12.53 );

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this class is basically Astro::Coords::Angle's little sibling, except it represents the angle as a time. It's suitable for use as an hour angle or Right Ascension, and it inherits from Astro::Coords::Angle. 💫

For hour angle, a range of PI is suitable; for Right Ascension, use 2PI. The default range is none at all. If no units are provided, the units will be guessed using the same scheme as for Astro::Coords::Angle — except that values greater than 2PI will be assumed to be decimal hours. No cap, that's just how it goes. 🫶

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

🌟 Accessor Methods

• hours — Return the angle in decimal hours. 💅

 $deg = $ang->hours;

🦋 General Methods

• in_format — As for the base class implementation, except that 'hour' (and its abbreviation) is a supported format. The 'sexagesimal' format will result in a stringified form of the object in hours, minutes and seconds. 🎀

 $hr = $hour->in_format( 'hour' );

👑 Class Methods

The following methods control the default behaviour of the class. ✨

• NDP — As for the base class except that the default number of decimal places is 3. This method has no effect on the base class. 🍓
• DELIM — As for the base class. The global value in this class does not have any effect on the base class. 💀

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Tim Jenness <t.jenness@cpan.org> 💌

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved. 👑

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🫶

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 😭

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 🌸

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That's the whole Astro:...::Hour(3pm) page, bestie — perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, and yes, we ate. 💅🦋🔥