Computing astronomical parameters

The astronomy module enables computation of certain parameters of interest for satellite remote sensing for instance the Sun-zenith angle:

>>> from pyorbital import astronomy
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> utc_time = datetime(2012, 5, 15, 15, 45)
>>> lon, lat = 12, 56
>>> astronomy.sun_zenith_angle(utc_time, lon, lat)
62.685986438071602