stateoftheuniverse

A python package that returns the current state of the universe

Would you like to know the phase of the moon? What about the current tally of exoplanets and asteroids? Curious about the constellations and planets you can see in the sky tonight? Want to celebrate the birthdays of historical astronomers?

Then you are going to love stateoftheuniverse.

Input your location, and we'll do the rest.

Made possible at Astro Hack Week 2019 by:

• Timothy Gebhard
• Oliver Hall
• Ania Kapuścińska
• Mariarosa Marinelli
• Eli Prater

Retrieving the state of the universe

Installation

To install locally:

git clone https://github.com/ojhall94/stateoftheuniverse
cd stateoftheuniverse
python3 setup.py install --user

Please note that this package requires Python 3.6 or later. You will also need:

• astroplan
• astropy
• astroquery
• matplotlib
• numpy
• SPARQLWrapper
• pyephem
• pytz