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Description:
histastro 0.0.6
HistAstro
A Python package for historical-astronomy calculations of Sun, Moon and planets.
Installation
This package can be installed using pip install histastro. 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.
Data files
You will need to manually download the eight data files
VSOP87D.xxx (click on FTP), one for each of the planets,
and save them in a directory of your choice (e.g. the subdirectory data/ of your working directory). To
compute the Moon position, the file moonposMeeus.csv is needed, which can be downloaded from this page:
http://astro.ru.nl/~sluys/HistAstro/
HistAstro pages
Radboud University: HistAstro homepage: data files and code documentation
Pypi: HistAstro Python package
GitHub: HistAstro source code
Author and licence
Author: Marc van der Sluys
Contact: http://astro.ru.nl/~sluys/
Licence: GPLv3+
References
Meeus, Astronomical algorithms, 2nd Ed.
VSOP87 planet theory: Bretagnon & Francou, 1988A+A...202..309B
VSOP87 data files
This Python code is adapted from the Fortran implementation in libTheSky
Celestial mechanics in a nutshell (CMiaNS)
License
For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.
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