attipaci/supernovas

Project ID: 130743

Description

SuperNOVAS is a C/C++ astronomy library, providing high-precision astronomical calculations such as one might need for running an observatory or a precise planetarium program. It is a fork of the Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software (NOVAS) C version 3.1, providing bug fixes and making it easier to use overall.

The main goals of SuperNOVAS are to improve usability, add new features, promote best practices, and provide accessible documentation -- all while retaining 100% API compatibility with NOVAS C 3.1. Thus, if you have written code for NOVAS C 3.1, it should readily work with SuperNOVAS also.

SuperNOVAS is entirely free to use without licensing restrictions. Its source code is compatible with the C90 standard, and hence should be suitable for old and new platforms alike. It is light-weight and easy to use, with full support for the IAU 2000/2006 standards for sub-microarcsecond position calculations.

Installation Instructions

This package is included in Fedora 41 and later releases, and has the following components:

supernovas -- Runtime library (libsupernovas.so.1)
supernovas-devel -- C headers and unversioned libsupernovas.so link.
supernovas-doc -- HTML user documentation, inlcuding API docs.
supernovas-cio-data -- Optional CIO locator data for returning CIO locations vs GCRS.
supernovas-solsys1 -- Optional adapter for legacy DE200 -- DE421 planetary ephemeris data (libsolsys1.so.1).
supernovas-solsys2 -- Optional adapter for the JPL PLEPH (FORTRAN) routines (libsolsys2.so.1).

Please report bugs and issues at https://github.com/Smithsonian/SuperNOVAS.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0), ppc64le (0), s390x (0), x86_64 (2)	Fedora 41 (4 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (7), ppc64le (0), s390x (0), x86_64 (110)	Fedora rawhide (20 downloads)