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: a Python package that provides astronomical constants.
• 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): online living document.
• This Python code is being adapted from the Fortran implementation in libTheSky

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