semolex / streampc

Set of Python\MongoDB-based utils to manipulate, search and download MPC (Minot Planet Center) data

streampc

Status: early development

Set of Python\MongoDB-based CLI utils to manipulate, search and download MPC (Minot Planet Center) data.

streampc stands for Street Astronomy MPC, where MPC is Minor Planet Center - official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data for minor planets, and StreetAstronomy is community of amateur astronomers from Ukraine.

Follow here:

• Minor Planet Center
• StreetAstronomy Web
• StreetAstronomy Facebook

1. Functionality

   • Command-line interface.
   • Ability to download latest MPCORB JSON datafile.
   • Ability to update database from JSON file.
   • Ability to search for object in database via passed query.

2. Prerequisites

In most cases, python is already installed on Linux machines.
Also, we assume that streampc repo is already cloned or downloaded.
You can download it here

It is created on top of python 3.5, but while there is not test, you can try to use any viable version. If there is a problems, please follow here and here

3. Installation

   3.1 Install required software

   sudo apt-get install mongodb python-virtualenv

   3.2 Setup environment

   # start MongoDB service
   sudo service mongod start
   

   Setup virtualenv in preferred folder:

   virtualenv envname -p python3 --no-site-packages
   

   Activate environment:

   source envname/bin/activate
   

   Now is time to install few requirements. cd into streampc folder

   # cd into streampc directory and run
   pip install -r requirements.txt