astrotool 0.0.4

A Python package for astronomical calculations in Python or on the command line

AstroTool

A Python package for astronomical calculations in Python or on the command line.

Installation

This package can be installed using pip install astrotool. This should automatically install the dependency packages numpy and fortranformat if they haven't been installed already. If you are installing by hand, you have to ensure these packages are installed as well.

AstroTool pages

• Radboud University: AstroTool homepage, data files
• Pypi: AstroTool Python package
• GitHub: AstroTool source code

Author and licence

• Author: Marc van der Sluys
• Contact: http://astro.ru.nl/~sluys/
• Licence: GPLv3+

References

• Meeus, Astronomical algorithms, 2nd Ed.
• Celestial mechanics in a nutshell (CMiaNS)
• This Python code is adapted from the Fortran implementation in libTheSky