This Python API, is an effort towards opening NASA's PDS data sets to the public with a focus on ease of access. Thus creating, NASA's JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System API
This method is outdated until I can recover my account to update the package Download the package from: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HorizonJPL or from pip:
pip install horizonjpl
Clone the repository to try it out for now
Please note, this API is currently in development and things are subject to change in future versions.
To run the demo you just have to do the following steps in a terminal:
cd
into demo directorypip install -r requirements.txt
to install dependanciespython demo.py
to start the serverThings yet to be implemented from HORIZON system:
Creating a robust fault tolerant API is the number one goal. Included in this goal is various subgoals:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris:
For scientific uses, a modern planetary ephemeris comprises software that generates positions of planets and often of
their satellites, asteroids, or comets, at virtually any time desired by the user.
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