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Hello,
I would like to scale up the observatory or create a larger design. I am aware that the number of teeth on the gears will change. Can this be corrected through software? How does the program …
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Hi,
Quote from the 2023-StrarryNet paper: "The constellation observer is designed as a collector for constellation-relevant information, and it maintains three databases related to satellite, grou…
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PyEphem is deprecated: https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ Replace with Skyfield for TLE functionality but lean towards using Astropy whenever Skyfield and Astropy provide redundant capabilities.
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Hello, Matthew! How are you?
I know this is not the best way to reach, sorry about that.
I'd like to use your project in order to track ISS and some visible satellites, and I'd like first if LX2…
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I was running a calendar conversion for Islamic hijri calendar. I stumbled across an error in interpreting one of the dates, which is between JD = 1976791,1976792. In julian calendar, that date is sup…
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I'm a recent user of Skyfield and it's been an excellent tool! I've been looking at satellite illuminations and was using JPL's Horizon app as a check. I was working through your ISS example from "Bl…
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PLEASE can we have the option to load(), e.g.
load('de421.bsp', download=False)
to prevent SkyField from going out repeatedly and getting files over and over and over?
My application is cra…
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Stable V1 was released in March, 2017: http://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/
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While implementing Earth-Moon distance calculations in a port of skyfield to another language, I noticed a discrepancy in what appears to be a test reference value.
Simple km-to-AU conversion of th…
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First: I'm excited about the idea of a machine-speed SGP4 implementation that can be called from Python! This will meet an important need for folks finding the pure-Python `sgp4` not fast enough for t…