chasca was created to my own personal use, but it might be useful for someone else. chasca means star in the Inca–Andean–Quechua cosmovision. chasca is a simple tool based on astroplan to plan astronomical observations. To exploid the full astroplan features plase see its tutorials.
Installing chasca requires only one step. Please run the following pip command:
pip install chasca
Note that you will need Python (>=3.7-3.9) installed. If you already have chasca installed, you should consider upgrading to the latest version via:
pip install chasca --upgrade
The main dependencies of chasca is astroplan. However, there are other dependences such as NumPy, Astropy, matplotlib, regions, SciPy, pandas, PyPDF2, and os. Please, make sure that all these dependences are properly installed.
Follow our tutorial!
chasca is a simple tool created to help me to plan observations. Please contact me (ramstojh@alumni.usp.br) if you have questions. Users are welcome to propose new features or report bugs by opening an issue on GitHub.
Copyright 2022, Jhon Yana Galarza.
The source code is made available under the terms of the MIT license.
If you make use of this code, please cite all the dependencies listed above.