2011-06-29
Resource: pysofa
Description: Standards of Fundamental Astronomy interface
Homepage URL: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysofa
Pysofa provides a Python interface to the the IAU-sanctioned Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (SOFA) library. SOFA is a set of algorithms and procedures that implement standard models used in fundamental astronomy, covering:
- Calendars
- Time Scales
- Earth rotation and sidereal time
- Ephemerides (medium precision)
- Geocentric/geodetic transformations
- Precession, nutation, polar motion
- Star space motion ...
2010-09-23
Resource: pytpm
Description: a python interface to Jeff Percival's Telescope Pointing Machine
Homepage URL: http://phn.github.com/pytpm/main.html
pytpm, is a python interface to Jeff Percival's Telescope Pointing Machine, a C library for carrying out fast calculations related to astrometry and date/time.
pytpm includes a covenience function, convert, calling the TPM code to perform coordinate conversions.
