Astral (alpha)

Astronomy toolkit for finding the position of the Sun, Moon, planets and other celestial bodies at a place and time.

** Accuracy is currently low, though should provide alitude/azimuth values within +-3 degrees from other sources **

Commands

Most results are relative to a time and location on earth.

Run astral --help or astral <command> --help for usage details

astral moon Information on Earth's moon.

astral sun Information on Earth's sun, relative to a time and location on earth.

astral planet mars Information on planets of the local solar system

astral star polaris Information on a star

astral geocode "Oranjemund,Namibia" Get Latitude/Longitude Coordinates for location

Installation

Mac (Homebrew)

brew tap manguluka/tap;
brew install astral-cli;
# Use
astral-cli --help;

From source

Prerequisites: Rust environment with Cargo package manager(Rustup is recommended)

cargo install astral-cli; // installs binary from crates.io

or

git clone git@github.com:manguluka/astral-cli.git \
cd astral-cli \
cargo install; // installs binary from current directory