Re: [help-gnuastro] Sun Az/El

[Christopher Howard]

Thanks for the quick response, and for adding the task. I think I'll
look around some more first to see if any other free software packages
do what I need (stellarium perhaps?) I do code a lot but only in lisps.

On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 22:53 +0200, Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Gnuastro is still a very young package which is still growing and
> with 
> many tools remaining to be included. So unfortunately it doesn't yet 
> have an ephemeris (positions of objects on the sky) calculation tool.
> 
> Thanks to this question, I added a task (link below) in the Gnuastro 
> project webpage, so it won't be forgotten and it will be included
> some 
> time in the future by anyone who is interested.
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?14628
> 
> If you are familiar/comfortable with Python, the astropy library 
> provides a package for this job, and it is free software:
> 
> http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/coordinates/solarsystem.html
> 
> I believe it can be used offline as you wanted, you just need to 
> download its database (115MB) once. You can write a small Python
> script 
> to calculate it using these astropy modules.
> 
> I hope this helps :-),
> 
> Cheers,
> Mohammad
> 
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