Paying close attention to the night sky is a pleasant way to keep in touch with stars. Most people can enter astronomy through the DIY telescope. However, for those living in areas with serious light pollution, cost is not the only problem faced by amateur astronomers. Fortunately, there are more ways to observe the night sky, such as the open source software package of [elanorlutz], which can monitor all known asteroids.
The software is mainly based on Python and uses NASA’s multiple databases, so that anyone with a computer can explore various maps of the solar system and its planets and non planets. Various trajectories can be calculated, and the paths of other solar system objects relative to observers in different positions can be displayed. Once calculated in Python, it can export images for use in any image processing software you like.
[elanorlutz] the code created is so extensive that anyone interested in tracking comets, transneptune objects, and even planets and moons from their own computer can use it. We can imagine that such a tool is very convenient for anyone with a telescope. It can accurately predict the position of objects in the night sky and then track them with appropriate hardware.
