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Welcome to the Skyfield Repository
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Skyfield is a pure-Python astronomy package
that is compatible with both Python2 and3
and makes it easy to generate high precision research-grade
positions for planets and Earth satellites.
::
from skyfield.api import earth, mars, now
ra, dec, distance = earth(now()).observe(mars).radec()
print(ra)
print(dec)
print(distance)
::
09h 14m 50.35s
+17deg 13' 02.6"
2.18572863461 AU
Its only binary dependency is NumPy.
Skyfield can usually be installed with::
pip install skyfield
Here are the essential project links:
* `Home page and documentation
<http://rhodesmill.org/skyfield>`_.
* `Contributing to Skyfield
<https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/blob/master/Contrib.rst>`_.
* `Skyfield package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/skyfield>`_
on the Python Package Index.
* `Skyfield package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/skyfield>`_
on the Python Package Index.
* `Issue tracker
<https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-skyfield/issues>`_
on GitHub.
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