The simplest way forward is to use something like stellarium[0] or xephem[1] to make charts and view/adjust them in real-time. But that involves no python. :)

The simplest way forward is to use something like stellarium[0] or xephem[1] to make charts and view/adjust them in real-time. But that involves no python. :) A more complicated option would be to program one up using various tools in the astropy library. You could retrieve catalogs of objects and plot their positions using the built in coordinate system tools (wcs) with aplpy[2] or matplotlib. [0] http://www.stellarium.org/ http://www.stellarium.org/ [1] http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ [2] https://aplpy.github.io/ https://aplpy.github.io/