Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: astronomia
Version: 0.4.0
Summary: Library for calculation of ephemeris and other astronomical calculations
Home-page: http://timcera.bitbucket.org/
Author: Tim Cera, P.E.
Author-email: tim@cerazone.net
License: GPL2
Description: Astronomia - Quick Guide
        ------------------------
        Astronomia is a collection of subroutines and applications for calculating the
        positions of the sun, moon, planets and other celestial objects. The emphasis
        is on high accuracy over a several thousand year time span. Note that the
        techniques used are overkill for most calendar applications. 
        
        The subroutine library attempts to implement some the techniques described in
        *Astronomical Algorithms*, second edition 1998, by Jean Meeus, `Willmann-Bell,
        Inc. <http://www.willbell.com/">`_
        
        Currently there are no graphical applications apart from some demo CGI
        interfaces. 
        
        Astronomia will work with Python 2.6+ and 3.0+.
        
        Documentation
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        Reference documentation is at http://pythonhosted.org/astronomia/
        
        Installation
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~
        At the command line::
        
            $ pip install astronomia
            # OR
            $ easy_install astronomia
        
        Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed::
        
            $ mkvirtualenv astronomia
            $ pip install astronomia
        
        Usage
        ~~~~~
        To use Astronomia in a project::
        
        	import astronomia
        
        Refer to the API Documentation at http://pythonhosted.org/astronomia/
        
        Development
        ~~~~~~~~~~~
        Development is managed on bitbucket at
        https://bitbucket.org/timcera/astronomia/overview.
        
        History
        ~~~~~~~
        Astronomia is a fork of the Astrolabe library created by Bill McClain.  The
        Astrolabe library is no longer available.
        
        I (Tim Cera) used the Astrolabe library within my tidal analysis package
        `TAPPy <http://tappy.sf.net>`_. In 2013 I pulled Astrolabe out of TAPPy and
        forked Astronomia.  I have since fixed many bugs and added features.  The most
        important added feature is the ability for most functions to work with array
        inputs.  Bill McClain had dual Python and 'C' code, but I focused only on the
        Python code, updating with newer data and equations as I found them.
        
        
        
Keywords: ephemeris astronomy
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
