starViewCLI

Description

"When you see the stars you are looking into the past. Because light takes time to travel and stars are many light years away from us you could be seeing a star that doesn’t even exist anymore." :star2:

starViewCLI is a simple line application that provide information about stars visibility in a moment that you decide. You can also create an astronomical diary (a blank file with a title and current datetime) where write all of your notes and read them.

It was created to determine the best stars observing time. In fact, stars are more visible if:

• is night (of course),
• weather is clear and cloudiness is low,
• Moon is not full or better is a new Moon :new_moon:
• there's no light pollution (or is little at least).

Installation

npm install --save view-stars-cli

Usage

npm start viewStars

to running the project and view all command options

Commands

type the full name of command or the shorter one in the terminal

//to see current weather in a location specified by city name weatherNow | wn (cityName)

//to see forecast weather every 3 hours in a location specified by city name weatherForecast | wf (cityName) (hours)

//to see the moon phase and its luminosity moonPhase | mp

//to know how much is light pollution in a location specified by city name lightPollution | lp (cityName)

//to create your astronomical diary createDiary | cd (diaryName)

//to write your notes in a astronomical diary writeDiary | wd

//to read your notes written in the astronomical diary readDiary | rd

Author

• Luca Reano - @LucaReano

License

GNU GPLv3

Keywords

command line interface, CLI, console, commander, stars, weather, moon, light pollution, diary