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Docs: .epoch belongs to an element set, not a TLE
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Because maybe the element set was loaded from JSON or CSV.  Right?
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brandon-rhodes committed May 8, 2024
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.. _tle-epoch:

Checking a TLE’s epoch
======================

The “epoch” date of a satellite element set
is the all-important date and time
for which the set of elements is most accurate,
and before or after which they go rapidly out of date.
You can access this value as an attribute of the object
in case your program wants to check how old the elements are:
Checking an element set’s epoch
===============================

The ``.epoch`` time of a satellite element set
is the date and time on which the element set is most accurate.
Before or after that date,
the element set will be less accurate.
The epoch is a Skyfield :class:`~skyfield.timelib.Time` object:

.. testcode::

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