A Python package for astronomical calculations in Python or on the command line
Project description
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 astroconst
, colored_traceback
and numpy
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
- Pypi: AstroTool Python package
- GitHub: AstroTool source code
- Read the Docs: AstroTool documentation
Author and licence
- Author: Marc van der Sluys
- Contact: http://astro.ru.nl/~sluys/
- Licence: EUPL 1.2
See also
- AstroConst: astronomical constants in Python
- SolTrack: a free, fast and accurate Python or C/C++ routine to compute the position of the Sun
- elp-mpp02: accurate Moon positions using the lunar solution ELP/MPP02 in Python
- libTheSky: a Fortran library to compute the positions of celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets, stars, asteroids, comets) and events (e.g. lunar phases) with great accuracy.
References
- Meeus, Astronomical algorithms, 2nd Ed.
- Celestial mechanics in a nutshell (CMiaNS)
- This Python code is being adapted from the Fortran implementation in libTheSky
Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Marc van der Sluys
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