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Orbital and astronomy computations in python

Stars: 262
Forks: 80
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 20
Avg merge: 8h 34m
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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20 open issues indexed

`Orbital("Landsat-8")` call hangs indefinitely on first invocation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#218 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 14, 2025
Refactor unit tests Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#215 · Opened Nov 18, 2025
tlefile.py urlopen does not recognize celestar ssl certificate Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#201 · 12 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2025
main block in geoloc.py fails with ValueError Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#195 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Add units to Orbital docs Open

documentation

pytroll/pyorbital#190 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 18, 2025
Calculating satellite revisit time based on swath width Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

pytroll/pyorbital#180 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Add an SNO finder script to Pyorbital. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytroll/pyorbital#152 · Opened Jun 12, 2024
Unittest failure with numpy 1.26.4 on i386 platforms Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pytroll/pyorbital#149 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2024
ISS not found in get_observer_look Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytroll/pyorbital#116 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 21, 2022
How compute satellite look angle? Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytroll/pyorbital#105 · 22 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2022
Would be nice to have a `get_last_dn_time` to get the last descending node Open

enhancement

pytroll/pyorbital#95 · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 8, 2022
Add support for dask and xarray Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytroll/pyorbital#88 · Opened Dec 3, 2021
NotImplementedError: Deep space calculations not supported - Just from running TLE file Open

help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytroll/pyorbital#71 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 12, 2021
get_lonlatalt doesn't give correct results for Terra / Aqua Open

pytroll/pyorbital#70 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 23, 2020
get_orbit_number not internally consistant Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#69 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2020
Observer look angles are incorrect for SEVIRI Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytroll/pyorbital#68 · 9 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2020
Improve Pyorbital documentation! Open

PCW

pytroll/pyorbital#58 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 14, 2020
Add sar as an instrument Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pytroll/pyorbital#54 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2019
Does pyorbital no longer calculate moon phase? Open

bug

pytroll/pyorbital#48 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 16, 2019
Fix consistency of position argument type (array versus tuple) Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pytroll/pyorbital#11 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2017

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