Asteroidpy 0.1

A tool for asteroid observation scheduling and analysis

AsteroidPy

A simple tool to manage Asteroid observations and misurements

Description

AsteroidPy is a simple tool to help astronomers to Schedule and manage asteroidal observation and misurements. It uses the main sources in minor planets research to provide punctual prevision of ephemerides and Neocp candidates.

Features

• Weather forecast
• Observation scheduling
• NeoCP Candidates Listing
• Object ephemeris
• Twilight, Sun and Moon times
• Virtual Horizon simulation

Getting Started

Using AsteroidPy is very easy. Here you can find instructions

Requirements

• Python 3.x installed and configured
• Pip installed

Installation

From Source:

• Clone the repository in your directory git clone https://github.com/ziriuz84/asteroipy
• Enter the folder with the command of your choice, usually cd asteroidpy
• (Optional) create a Virtualenv for your installation virtualenv env
• Install AsteroidPy pip install .

Execution

Simply launch the command

asteroidpy

Release History

Library used

• Requests
• BeautifoulSoup 4
• Configparser
• Astropy
• Astroquery
• Astroplan
• LXML

Data provenience

• 7Timer
• Minor Planet Center

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to Your Project Name!

Please first note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

We welcome any type of contribution, not only code. You can help with:

• QA: File bug reports, the more details you can give the better (e.g. screenshots with the console open)
• Community: Presenting the project at meetups, organizing a dedicated meetup for the local community
• Code: Take a look at the open issues. Even if you can't write the code yourself, you can comment on them, showing that you care about a given issue matters. It helps us triage them

TODO

• NEOcp alert integration
• Observation registration