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Hey! I’m using ephemerides from JPL (Development Ephemeris) and IMCCE (INPOP). I also developed an open source library for extracting data from these ephemeride
by rhannequin 11mo ago
Hey! I’m using ephemerides from JPL (Development Ephemeris) and IMCCE (INPOP). I also developed an open source library for extracting data from these ephemerides: https://github.com/rhannequin/ruby-ephem https://github.com/rhannequin/ruby-ephem
These files provide geometric barycentric data. So they need quite a bunch of transformations and physical corrections to become accurate coordinates usable by an astronomer. That’s Astronoby.
And finally Caelus is the project that uses the final data for astronomy use-cases.
My goal is to present data in a nice way, but more importantly to provide a fully open source experience. Everything is open source starting from the ephemeris file up to the website itself. The data on the website is not particularly new, although I’m trying my best to offer a good UX. What is new in my opinion is to be able to trace all the logic that produced it.