Compute positions of the planets and stars with Python

 PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision
 astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C and
 are the same ones that drive the popular XEphem astronomy application, whose
 author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their use in
 PyEphem.
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 The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is the
 traditional term for a table giving the position of a planet, asteroid, or
 comet for a series of dates.
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 Nothe that this package will continue to be maintained, but it no
 longer stands at the cutting edge of astronomy in Python.