Source: jplephem Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers Uploaders: Antonio Valentino Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, dh-sequence-numpy3, dh-sequence-python3, python3-all, python3-numpy:any, python3-setuptools, python3-pytest Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/jplephem Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/jplephem.git Homepage: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-jplephem Package: python3-jplephem Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, python3-numpy Description: Use a JPL ephemeris to predict planet positions This package can load and use a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ephemeris for predicting the position and velocity of a planet or other Solar System body. It currently supports binary SPK files (extension ".bsp") like those distributed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that are: . * Type 2 - positions stored as Chebyshev polynomials, with velocity derived by computing their derivative. * Type 3 - positions and velocities both stored explicitly as Chebyshev polynomials. * Type 9 - a series of discrete positions and velocities, with separate timestamps that do not need to be equally spaced. Currently there is only support for linear interpolation: for Type 9 ephemerides of polynomial degree 1, not of any higher degrees. . Even if an ephemeris isn't one of the above types, it is still possible to use jplephem to read its text comment and list the segments inside.