NAME

planpos - calculate planetary positions for given time and place.

SYNOPSIS

  planpos [options]

OPTIONS

--help

Prints a brief help message and exits.

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

--time

Date and time, either a calendar entry in format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM Z, or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM Z, or a floating-point Julian Day:

  --time="2019-06-08 12:00 +0300"
  --time="2019-06-08 09:00 UTC"
  --time=2458642.875

Calendar entries should be enclosed in quotation marks. Optional "Z" stands for time zone, short name or offset from UTC. "+00300" in the example above means "3 hours east of Greenwich".

--place

The observer's location. Contains 2 elements, space separated.

• latitude in DD(N|S)MM format, N for North, S for South.

• longitude in DDD(W|E)MM format, W for West, E for East.

E.g.: --place=51N28 0W0 for Greenwich, UK (the default).

Decimal numbers are also supported. In that case

• The latitude always goes first

• Negative numbers represent South latitude and East longitudes.

--place=55.75 -37.58 for Moscow, Russian Federation. --place=40.73 73.935 for New-York, NY, USA.

--coordinates: type and format of coordinates to display:

• 1 - Ecliptical, angular units (default)

• 2 - Ecliptical, zodiac

• 3 - Equatorial, time units

• 4 - Equatorial, angular units

• 5 - Horizontal, time units

• 6 - Horizontal, angular units

--format: format of numbers:

• D decimal: arc-degrees or hours

• S sexagesimal: degrees (hours), minutes, seconds

--theme: color theme:

• dark (default): for dark consoles

• light: for light consoles

• colorless: without colors, for terminals that do not support ANSI color codes

--no-colors: do not use colors, same as --theme=colorless

DESCRIPTION

planpos computes planetary positions for current moment or given time and place.