Calculating Star and Planet Positions in the Night Sky: A Mathematical Approach

In summary, The conversation is about calculating the position of stars or planets in the night sky using a mathematical formula. The person asking the question is interested in using python and the astropy library to do this. The other person recommends looking at resources on celestial coordinate systems and provides a link to download astropy.
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Harshil
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Hello to all of you,

my question is:how to calculate the star or planet position in night sky? give me a methemetical formula...
 
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If you are able to program in python, there's an excellent library called astropy that can be used to give the position of an astronomical object at any time at any place on Earth, in all the common coordinate systems. If you're not familiar with how stars are located in the sky, I suggest you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_coordinate_system and https://dept.astro.lsa.umich.edu/ugactivities/Labs/coords/index.html
 
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e.bar.goum said:
If you are able to program in python, there's an excellent library called astropy that can be used to give the position of an astronomical object at any time at any place on Earth, in all the common coordinate systems. If you're not familiar with how stars are located in the sky, I suggest you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_coordinate_system and https://dept.astro.lsa.umich.edu/ugactivities/Labs/coords/index.html

thankx for giving information, i will read it,
 
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you give me a link to download a astropy...
 
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thank you
 

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