🪐 EphemerisSources.jl

Important

The packages described in this documentation are not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, JPL, Caltech, or any other organization! They are independently written packages by an astrodynamics hobbyist.

Packages

This repository includes the top-level documentation for several solar system ephemeris tools, all written with the Julia Programming Language. To learn more about how to use these tools, consult the documentation website, or visit each package repository.

Note

At this time, there is no package named EphemerisSources.jl. This repository hosts all of the packages shown below.

Package	Description
HorizonsAPI.jl	A precise JPL HORIZONS REST API client implementation, with keyword arguments for each acceptable parameter.
HorizonsEphemeris.jl	Convenience wrappers around the JPL HORIZONS REST API.
SPICEKernels.jl	All generic kernels exported as variable constants.
SPICEBodies.jl	Idiomatic wrappers around SPICE and SPICE.jl methods.

Paper

This repository holds a JOSS submission under paper/. The paper is published to as a pre-print to HTML, PDF, and Markdown on the gh-pages branch.

External Resources

Other Julia packages for interfacing with solar system ephemeris data are available, including the three external packages below. These are not affiliated with this repository, or this documentation's author.

Package	Description
Horizons.jl	Functions for spawning the telnet interface, and querying files.
SPICE.jl	A Julia interface to the CSPICE library provided by NASA JPL.
Ephemerides.jl	Ephemeris kernel reading and interpolation in pure Julia.