The Plan

[helgee]

CC: @giordano

• Get validation setup in place
  • ERFA.jl Overhaul
  • Move SPICE.jl to JuliaAstro and complete wrapper
  • Migrate those to BinDeps2
• Move JPLEphemeris.jl to JuliaAstro
• Polish and publish AstronomicalTime.jl and re-export it from here
• Import tree from AstroDynBase.jl and prune astrodynamics-specific functionality
• Integrate with JPLEphemeris.jl, AstroLib.jl etc.
• ...
• Profit!

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[giordano]

As a memo, most of constants in https:/JuliaAstro/AstroLib.jl/blob/73621b179b818464e72e942fd3a691ee79f14243/src/common.jl can be moved here. The planets are also defined in other package, and probably the design you used for them is better.

As I proposed in JuliaAstro/ERFA.jl#35, I don't know if users are expecting them to be there, but we may want to move constants in ERFA.jl here, as they're not used at all.

[m-wells]

I recently came across this repo (via an issue on UnitfulAstro) and am curious as to the purpose of this project. There is no information on the readme but the name AstroBase seems to suggest some big plan.

[helgee]

The idea for this package is to serve a similar role as AstroPy in the Python world, i.e. to provide fundamental algorithms and data types for astronomy, astrophysics, and space science and engineering packages.