From: Stuart Henderson Subject: Re: NEW: astro/py-ephem To: Mikolaj Kucharski Cc: Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:03:52 +0100 if I get an ok, sure -- Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting. On 17 September 2025 14:17:13 Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 06:38:26PM +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> >> Hm.. Right. I looked into skyfield and your other ports. Very useful, >> but skyfield and the DSP file(s) and the dependency tree are much bigger >> than pyephem. Not sure. Disk is cheap these days, so not a big issue. >> I've also noticed that execution of skyfield is slower than pyephem, >> but also not a big issue. I am okay to be a maintainer for pyephem, >> if that helps. I think I need time to decided what I want and iterate >> over the software a bit. >> > > Anything which would allow me to show or calculate sunrise and sunset > on OpenBSD would be useful for me. Could you import kosmorro and related > dependencies into ports tree, Stuart? > > I tested it at the time, when you send it and it worked well. > > -- > Regards, > Mikolaj