https://github.com/semaphorep/whereistheplanet
Prediciting the position of exoplanets
https://github.com/semaphorep/whereistheplanet
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Prediciting the position of exoplanets
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/semaphorep/whereistheplanet
- Owner: semaphoreP
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2019-08-03T18:02:00.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-30T22:43:49.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-30T23:29:56.104Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: astronomy, exoplanets, python
- Language: Python
- Size: 684 KB
- Stars: 11
- Watchers: 8
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# whereistheplanet?
Prediciting the position of exoplanets. Web version is available at https://www.whereistheplanet.com/. Credit: Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt.
 [](https://ascl.net/2101.003)
## Install
Requires `orbitize!` (https://github.com/sblunt/orbitize/) and `git-lfs` to pull the posteriors. After you clone the repositroy and use `git lfs pull` to pull the posteriors, install using
```
python setup.py develop
```
This creates a script `whereistheplanet` that you can call from anywhere in the terminal.
## Tutorial
Open a terminal window and run
```
whereistheplanet hr8799b
```
If you want the planet location at a particular date.
```
whereistheplanet hr8799b --time 2019-01-01
```
To see all of the planets currently supported:
```
whereistheplanet --list
```
## Attribution
If you used this for your research, please cite the [ASCL entry](https://ascl.net/2101.003) of it:
Wang, J. J., Kulikauskas, M., Blunt, S. 2021, Astrophysics Source Code Library, ascl:2101.003