On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 01:58, C Hamilton <adenacult...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before I go too far with this I want to check to see if the following package > could be used in QGIS. > > astropy (https://www.astropy.org/) has a modified BSD-2 license. See > https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/master/LICENSE.rst > > This would be the library I would pick. It might be an overkill, but in the > long run it could also be used by anyone with imagery from the Moon, Venus, > Mars or any of the planets and it would have all the necessary functions they > would need. The activity on the project is very high. One thing I have not > checked is to see if their algorithms are historically and anciently accurate > which would be of interest to archaeologists. > > An astropy add on is astroplan (https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) > which has the same license and has a number of utilities that use astropy > that calculate sunrise, sunset, moon phase and illumination. It is not as > actively developed, but it may not need to be. > > Skyfield (https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/, > https://github.com/skyfielders/python-skyfield/) seems to have a lot of the > basic routines, but it is primarily developed by one person. It has a MIT > license, but seems to be actively developed. This might be my second choice > of libraries.
The problem with both those libraries is that they are Python only -- this eliminates them as options, since we need c or c++ for it to be usable in the 3d engine. Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
