AstroConst

A Python package that provides astronomical constants. The code is being developed by Marc van der Sluys of the department of Astrophysics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Institute of Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (Nikhef), and the Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP) at Utrecht University, all in The Netherlands. The AstroConst package can be used under the conditions of the EUPL 1.2 licence.

Installation

This package can be installed using pip install astroconst. This should automatically install the dependency packages ``, if they haven't been installed already. If you are installing by hand, ensure that these packages are installed as well.

Example use

"""Example Python script using the AstroConst package."""

import astroconst

AstroConst pages

• Pypi: AstroConst Python package
• GitHub: AstroConst source code
• ReadTheDocs: AstroConst documentation

Author and licence

• Author: Marc van der Sluys
• Contact: http://marc.vandersluys.nl
• Licence: EUPL 1.2

References

• The Astronomical Almanac Online!

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