On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 11:45:15AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/06/09 11:44, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2025/06/09 10:37, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2025/06/09 09:21, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > I needed to get info about sunrise and sunset. I am aware of py3-astral
> > > > but wanted to compare both, ephem and astral.
> > >
> > > Given the warnings on https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/, I'm wondering
> > > if this is really a good idea to import unless there's some other
> > > software intended to be ported that needs it? Skyfield (largely
> > > from the same author and more actively developed) generally seems
> > > a better idea, for sunrise and sunset calcs see e.g.
> > > https://techoverflow.net/2022/06/19/how-to-compute-sunrise-sunset-in-python-using-skyfield/
> > >
> > > If it is still worthwhile, here's a slightly tweaked version.
> > >
> >
> > If it's of interest, here are a few ports for a cli tool providing a
> > simple interface to display rise and set times for sun, moon, planets
> > and a former planet, using skyfield as the backend.
>
> oh, and here's sample output for that:
>
> $ kosmorro
> Monday, June 9, 2025
>
> Object Rise time Culmination time Set time
> -------- ----------- ------------------ ----------
> Sun 4:01 AM 12:12 PM 8:24 PM
> Moon 7:17 PM 11:00 PM 2:18 AM
> Mercury 4:36 AM 1:06 PM 9:36 PM
> Venus 2:12 AM 9:09 AM 4:05 PM
> Mars 9:36 AM 4:54 PM 12:14 AM
> Jupiter 4:47 AM 1:00 PM 9:13 PM
> Saturn 1:12 AM 7:09 AM 1:05 PM
> Uranus 2:58 AM 10:46 AM 6:35 PM
> Neptune 1:09 AM 7:11 AM 1:13 PM
> Pluto 11:24 PM 3:29 AM 7:30 AM
>
> Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
> Full Moon on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
>
> Note: All the hours are given in UTC.
>
This looks very useful. I am building it at the moment and dependency
tree takes a while, but the new ports read fine.
It would be useful to me to have it in the tree. The practical side of
the command line is exactly what I need. However I also need a module,
so I can incorporate it in my local code.
--
Regards,
Mikolaj
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