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Users interested in a broader range of astronomical tools beyond coordinate transformations may be interested in https://www.astropy.org/ https://www.astropy.or
by gammarator 3y ago
Users interested in a broader range of astronomical tools beyond coordinate transformations may be interested in https://www.astropy.org/ https://www.astropy.org/ and its affiliated packages.
- thinkmassive 3y agoCool, it sounds like Skyfield is intentionally made interoperable with AstroPy: > While Skyfield itself has no dependency on the AstroPy library, it’s willing to accept AstroPy time objects as input and return results in native AstroPy units
- dekhn 3y agoThanks- I was wondering if this was a useful tool compared to astropy. I've used astropy for a couple things: 1) to automatically locate the angle of the sun in the sky in alt and az, and send motor commands to keep my telescope pointed at it for hours 2) to compute the moon and sun locations around a solar eclipse so I could simulate an eclipse in blender When you use libraries like this you realize you are taking advantage of hundreds, if not thousands of years of technological development and discovery, turbocharged by modern math and software engineering.