pygcvs
A Python library for reading variable star data from the General Catalog of Variable Stars.
Installation
Use pip
to install latest release available at PyPI:
pip install pygcvs
Usage
Download the iii.dat
file from GCVS
and point the read_gcvs
function at its location.
The function returns a generator which yields a single star data dictionary
at a time. See below:
>>> import pygcvs >>> for star in pygcvs.read_gcvs('iii.dat'): ... print(star['name']) R AND S AND #... V0515 VUL V0516 VUL
Resources
Author
- Zbigniew Siciarz (zbigniew at siciarz dot net)
License
pygcvs is free software, licensed under the MIT/X11 License. A copy of the license is provided with the source code in the LICENSE file.