> > I see from looking for sources to download pyephem that it is no longer > being supported and a new astronomy package is replacing it. Perhaps I > should install that instead?
The Author of pyephem wrote the Skyfield library, and you're right that it no longer gets observed base data updates, but I didn't test so see how much drift there has been since it was last updated in 2018. However I compared the results from Skyfield to a weather site I frequent and they closely matched, but not exactly. Or does the new python have the ability to do those calculations? The Skyfield extension is a drop in replacement for the pyephem extension and the Skyfield extension is preferred according to documentation by the author if both are installed. > I assume since I'm only going to use this with WeeWx that I install > whichever one (if needed) into the Weewx-venv if "ephem 4.2" isn't what I > need (not pyephem)? If you want to use Skyfield there is a few math libraries needed as well but I assume pip will pull them in as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAGTinV5wFmm-4-W%2Bq5ACY2QJnaQFZ1ep_E%2BC7%2Bz3iBFt%2BB3D9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
