af-practical-astronomy 1.0.6

A collection of astronomy functions for practical applications

This project is based on the algorithms found in Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet by Peter Duffett-Smith and Jonathan Zwart.

This is a library of functions, with unit tests, written in Python 3.12, the standard library, unittest framework, and the math module.

All credit for the accuracy and usefulness of these algorithms goes to the original authors.

Test

To run all tests run this command:

python -m unittest

Local Development Setup

Start/Activate a Virtual Environment

Start:

python3 -m venv venv

Activate:

source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Installation

pip install af_practical_astronomy

Running

Currently, you will have to manually import these functions into your project if you wish.

Future plans

• Finish implementing all of the algorithms from the book.
  • Note: skipped section 31, matrix method for coordinate conversions. Will implement later.
• Add a test runner.

Updating and Repackaging the Project with setuptools

To update and repackage this Python project using setuptools on macOS, follow these steps:

1. Install or Activate the Virtual Environment

It's recommended to use a virtual environment for isolation. If you don't already have a virtual environment, create and activate one:

Create and start virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Required Dependencies

Ensure that setuptools and wheel are installed in your environment:

pip install setuptools wheel twine

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Update version number

setup(
    name="astronomy_types",
    version="0.2.0",  # Update this to the new version number
    ...
)

4. Build the dist

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

5. Upload with twine

twine upload dist/*

And enter in the API token when prompted