https://github.com/trwyant/perl-astro-coord-eci

Perl classes to predict satellite position and visibility
https://github.com/trwyant/perl-astro-coord-eci

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Perl classes to predict satellite position and visibility

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/trwyant/perl-astro-coord-eci
• Owner: trwyant
• Created: 2015-05-17T19:20:32.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-08T14:04:42.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T15:19:13.592Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: aerospace, perl, perl-module, satellite-prediction
• Language: Perl
• Size: 4.62 MB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: Changes
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING
  • License: LICENSES/Artistic

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README

        
Astro-satpass is Copyright (C) 2005-2024 by Thomas R. Wyant, III

DESCRIPTION

This package contains classes needed to predict satellite visibility,

and a demonstration application (satpass) that makes use of these

classes. The classes themselves are:

Astro::Coord::ECI - superclass (coordinate transforms)

Astro::Coord::ECI::Moon - Predict location of the Moon.

Astro::Coord::ECI::Star - Predict location of a star.

Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun - Predict location of the Sun.

Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE - Predict location of a satellite.

Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE::Set - Aggregation of TLEs, with ability

    to use the correct TLE depending on time.

Astro::Coord::ECI::Utils - Constants and utility subroutines.

The following has been moved to its own package:

Astro::Coord::ECI::TLE::Iridium - Subclass of TLE, with the ability

    to predict flares.

INSTALLATION

Most Perl users will want to install using their favorite of 'cpan',

'cpanm', or 'cpanp'. For any of these, installing Astro::Coord::ECI gets

you everything. ActivePerl users who use ActiveState's 'ppi' should

install Astro-satpass.

If for some reason neither of these works for you, you can download the

distribution and expand it using something like

    tar -xzf Astro-satpass-9.999.tar.gz

Users of MSWin32 (and perhaps other operating systems) may need to

convert the line endings in the expanded files from Unix to their native

system before proceeding.

Then, issue one of the following two incantations:

    perl Makefile.PL

    make

    make test

    sudo make install

or

    perl Build.PL

    ./Build

    ./Build test

    sudo ./Build install

You should substitute the appropriate program name for 'make', eg nmake

(typically) under MSWin32, or mms or mmk under VMS. See

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe for a copy of

nmake for MSWin32 if you need it.

Unix users may want to use 'su' rather than 'sudo' for the install.

Non-unix users may need to be logged in to an administrative or

otherwise privileged accout, and turn on privileges (if applicable) for

the install.

Of course, since it's pure Perl, you can just expand the kit and drop

the .pm files into the Astro/Coord/ECI directory (creating it if

necessary) in the appropriate place in your @INC directories.

LICENSING INFORMATION

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text

of the licenses in the directory LICENSES.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of

merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.