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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: NEW: astro/py-ephem
To:
Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucharski.name>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Mon, 9 Jun 2025 10:37:32 +0100

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On 2025/06/09 09:21, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I needed to get info about sunrise and sunset. I am aware of py3-astral
> but wanted to compare both, ephem and astral.

Given the warnings on https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/, I'm wondering
if this is really a good idea to import unless there's some other
software intended to be ported that needs it? Skyfield (largely
from the same author and more actively developed) generally seems
a better idea, for sunrise and sunset calcs see e.g.
https://techoverflow.net/2022/06/19/how-to-compute-sunrise-sunset-in-python-using-skyfield/

If it is still worthwhile, here's a slightly tweaked version.