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py3-jplephem-2.24p0

use a JPL ephemeris to predict planet positions

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Description

This package can load and use a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ephemeris for predicting the position and velocity of a planet or other Solar System body. Note that jplephem offers only the logic necessary to produce plain three-dimensional vectors. Most programmers interested in astronomy will want to look at Skyfield instead, which uses jplephem but converts the numbers into more traditional measurements like right ascension and declination. Most users will use jplephem with the Satellite Planet Kernel (SPK) files that the NAIF facility at NASA JPL offers for use with their own SPICE toolkit. They have collected their most useful kernels beneath the directory: http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/spk/ See the project description, https://pypi.org/project/jplephem/#description for more information.

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Ports path
astro/py-jplephem
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
astro, lang/python
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aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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