# spacepy.pybats.add_body

`spacepy.pybats.``add_body`(ax, rad=2.5, facecolor='lightgrey', add_planet=True, ang=0.0, add_night=True, **extra_kwargs)

  Creates a circle of radius=self.attrs[‘rbody’] and returns the MatPlotLib Ellipse patch object for plotting. If an axis is specified using the “ax” keyword, the patch is added to the plot. Default color is light grey; extra keywords are handed to the Ellipse generator function.

  Because the body is rarely the size of the planet at the center of the modeling domain, add_planet is automatically called. This can be negated by using the add_planet kwarg.

  Parameters: | ax : Matplotlib Axes object Set the axes on which to place planet.
  Other Parameters:
  | rad : float Set radius of the inner boundary. Defaults to 2.5. facecolor : string Set color of face of inner boundary circle via Matplotlib color selectors (name, hex, etc.) Defaults to ‘lightgrey’. add_planet : boolean Turns on/off planet indicator inside inner boundary. Defaults to True ang : float Set the rotation of the day-night terminator from the y-axis, in degrees. Defaults to zero (terminator is aligned with Y-axis.) add_night : boolean Add night hemisphere. Defaults to True