SolarGUI 0.1.4

A program which contains information about the solar system planets, moon, pluto, Sun, and more.

SolarGUI

A program which contains information about the solar system planets, moon, pluto, Sun, and more.

What it is?

The SolarGUI is a fun little project aimed to gather planetary (and other) information. See the values of various physical parameters in standard (SI, CGS) units and celestial equivalencies.

Support

Currently, the SolarGUI application is tested with Python v3.7, 3.8 and 3.9.

How to install?

pip

The SolarGUI is available via pip. Simply use the command,

pip install SolarGUI==0.1.4

wheel file

The wheel can also be downloaded from this wheel link and installed via

pip install [download_directory]/SolarGUI-0.1.4-py3-none-any.whl

Once the SolarGUI has been installed, you can simply launch it from the terminal/installation environment via,

SolarGUI

The frontend of SolarGUI provides several buttons for stars, planets, moons, and other celestial objects.

Each button will open a new window with access to physical and orbital buttons which contain information regarding the particular objects' parameters,

Clicking on the desired button will trigger a frame for the particular properties of the celestial object.

For example, if the user selects Physical Parameters, the following parameters will be listed

1. age,
2. mass,
3. radius,
4. volume,
5. density,
6. surface area,
7. surface gravity, and
8. escape velocity.

Similarly, clicking on the Orbital Parameters will trigger the frame with orbital parameters in it, such as

1. Semi-major axis
2. Eccentricity
3. Perihelion distance
4. Apehelian distance
5. Orbital period
6. Average orbital speed
7. Mean anomaly
8. Inclination
9. Longitude of ascending node
10. Argument of perihelion, and
11. Axial tilt.

The dropdown menus will show various other units of measures. The equivalencies button on the top right can be used to see the equivalent values for other celestial objects.

TODO

• Add Sun, Pluto and Moon with the Solar planets.
• Calculate physical properties via formulae, e.g., volume, density, surface_area, surface_gravity.
  • volume
  • density
  • surface_area
  • surface_gravity
  • others
• Add a comparison button/dropdown menu to check the values with respect to Earth/Jupiter/Sun.
  • Add planet level equivalencies.
• Segregate moons, dwarf planets, planets and other type of celestial objects.
• Design adjustments of the GUI
  • Adjust column widths in GUI.
  • Adjust the minimize/maximize window and widgets.
• Separate button/menu for physical/orbital and other parameters.
• Some interesting plots (optional).
• Random facts button.
• Add citations
• Add a section of papers that study different properties of the celestial objects.