A Python implementation of Vondrák's long term precession model and Fortran code.
- Some New Thoughts About Long-Term Precession (2010)
- New Long-Term Expressions for Precession (2011)
- New precession expressions, valid for long time intervals (2011)
- New precession expressions, valid for long time intervals (Corrigendum) (2012)
The only dependency is numpy.
To install the Vondrak Python package via PyPI, simply pip3 install vondrak
. For Python 2, use pip
. All code is hosted at github.com/dreamalligator/vondrak.
Alternatively, clone the repo git clone https://github.com/dreamalligator/vondrak
, and install from source with python3 setup.py install
.
View the docs at dreamalligator.github.io/vondrak, or generate with make html
in the docs
folder.
Setup a conda environment by simply running conda env create --file environment.yml
and activate by conda activate vondrak
Tests use the pytest framework. Simply run pytest
.
MIT