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Download and install latest version of Python here.

Follow these instructions to get the latest version of pip.

~$ git clone https://github.com/allenerocha/pysky.git && cd pysky/

pysky/$ pip install .

~$ pip uninstall pysky -y

~$ pysky -sd [start date] -st [start time] -ed [end date] -et [end time] -t [thread count] -v [verbosity level]

Specifying no end date and time defaults the search to only go for one hour long.

~$ pysky -h

~$ pysky --help

By default images of valid objects will be saved in the filename format:

$HOME/PySkySlideshow/object-width-height-resolution-scaling.png

To change the location of the saved images, you can add the following line to the user_prefs.cfg file:

slideshow_dir=

Followed by the directory to save in. The folder PySkySlideshow will be created in the specified directory.

slideshow_dir=/home/allen

This will set the directory to save the images as:

slideshow_dir=/home/allen/PySkySlideshow/

$ pysky -sd 2012-07-10 -st 17:00 -ed 2012-07-10 -et 23:00

$ pysky -sd 2015-12-31 -st 08:00 -ed 2016-01-01 -et 02:00 -v 5

$ pysky -sd 2019-09-01 -st 17:00 -t 2 -v 3

Python 3.6+