Overview

The observing site is represented by a Site. The easiest way to instantiate a Site is to load a preset one as

import maria

cerro_toco = maria.get_site("cerro_toco")
cerro_toco.plot()

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

Hint

To see all available pre-defined sites, run print(maria.all_sites).

We can design a Site from scratch as

from maria import Site

my_site = Site(latitude=latitude,
               longitude=longitude,
               altitude=altitude,
               region=region)

where latitude and longitude are in degrees, altitude is in meters, and region determines the weather data and the atmospheric emission/transmission spectrum model maria uses for simulations based on that Site.

Hint

To see all available pre-defined regions, run print(maria.all_regions).