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Re: Skyfield
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Oct 22, 22:32 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Oct 22, 22:32 -0700
On 2018-10-22 15:01, Robin Stuart wrote: > I recently found an application that makes it easy to generate positions of celestial bodies to the full accuracy of the JPL Ephemerides without the overhead of figuring out the file format and setting up the interpolation. It’s called Skyfield https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/ When does it say the December solstice will occur (in the UTC time scale)? I'm curious to see how closely it matches an estimate I computed a few months ago.