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sky generates three-dimensional sky models and two-dimensional images from the nasa skymap star catalog. finds stars near arbitrary points on the sky.

star triangles recurrently sets aside stars that disagree geometrically until one remains.

star languages writes sentences about star patterns using geometry-languages and translates into identifier-languages.

in ubuntu, install or upgrade os-level dependencies

sudo apt-get -qq update -qy
sudo apt-get -qq install -y python3.6 python3-venv python3-pip
sudo apt-get -qq install -y cmake
sudo apt-get -qq install -y libeigen3-dev

clone the git project, start a virtual environment, install the package, and test. should generate and display a star image using the nasa skymap catalog.

git clone git@gitlab.com:noahhsmith/starid.git starid
cd starid
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
python3 setup.py install
python3 starid --dirsky ./data -t

usage hints

usage: starid [-h] [--dirsky DIRSKY] [-t]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --dirsky DIRSKY  path to skymap directory
  -t, --test       show test star image

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