[QGIS-Developer] Earth, Sun, Moon & Planets Plugin

[C Hamilton]

I should clarify and say that if there were serious interest in using QGIS
for some astronomy related work astropy might be the way to go with perhaps
several other astropy libraries added, but I am not sure if astronomers
could use nor how they would use QGIS for their work other than the types
of things I am doing with the "Earth, Sun, Moon & Planets Plugin," but I am
not an astronomer. For what I visualize as the need of the community
Skyfield would probably do everything that would be needed.

Calvin

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 1:04 PM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Wow that looks beautiful! A couple of thoughts:
>
> 1) Rather than implementing your own slider logic I wonder if you could
> hook in to the temporal controller?
> 2) For platform specific components the normal practice is to a)
> communicate with the plugins reviewers about why this is needed so that
> they don't pre-emptively reject your plugin and b) normally pull down the
> platform specific components as a post install step. I expect you will get
> some resistance to adding a new dependency to QGIS core unless that
> dependency is broadly useful, but you may be able to convince Jurgen and
> Peter to bundle it into the Windows and macOS installers respectively.
> 3) For that 100mb blob, similar to our discussion on the timezone work you
> were doing, the preferred approach would be to fetch it as a post-install
> download the first time you use the plugin.
>
> Thanks for making such interesting plugins!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
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