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Tool to list relevant astronomical relations #1

Open nevrome opened 5 years ago

nevrome commented 5 years ago

Software (maybe a command line tool or an R package?) that shows astronomical relations if given a coordinate, a coordinate and an angle, or two coordinates in eyeshot. It should allow to get a quick estimation if a certain location or man made structure was build with respect to astronomical features as discussed in Archaeoastronomy.

Despite the obvious problem that correlation does not mean causation, for some contexts, like for example ritual architecture in the European Metal Ages, astronomical obervations seemed to be very relevant.

This software package should allow the user to get a quick overview about possible relations like solstices, lunistice, planet rises, etc..

I already posted that in @zackbatist s open-archaeo ToDo list and I believe this session might be a good environment to tackle this.

MartinHinz commented 5 years ago

This is a straightforward and manageable task, I would think, provided that the astronomical data necessary for it are directly available. If there are more routines to set up, e.g. for the 'orbit' and 'sky calculation', it will be more difficult.

In fact, skyscapeR seems to already exist that fulfills many of the requirements. Maybe it's worth taking a look here to estimate the need for processing and the effort?

Andros-Spica commented 5 years ago

You should also share those concerns with Fabio Silva ( https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/fparrachosilva ). He did a lot of work on that end and might be willing to join efforts!

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This is a straightforward and manageable task, I would think, provided that the astronomical data necessary for it are directly available. If there are more routines to set up, e.g. for the 'orbit' and 'sky calculation', it will be more difficult.

In fact, skyscapeR https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/skyscapeR/vignettes/skyscapeR.html seems to already exist that fulfills many of the requirements. Maybe it's worth taking a look here to estimate the need for processing and the effort?

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nevrome commented 5 years ago

Ha! I was not aware of scyscapeR, @MartinHinz! And Fabio Silva is already the author of this package, @Andros-Spica!

Thank you very much -- I'll take a closer look. Let's see if the workflow I had in mind is already implemented.