A program which contains information about the solar system planets, moon, pluto, Sun, and more.

The SolarGUI is a fun little project aimed to gather planetary (and other) information. See the values of various physical parameters in standard (SI, CGS) units and celestial equivalencies.

Currently, the SolarGUI application is tested with Python v3.7, 3.8 and 3.9.

The SolarGUI is available via pip. Simply use the command,

pip install SolarGUI

The wheel can also be downloaded from this wheel link and installed via

pip install [download_directory]/SolarGUI-0.1.6-py3-none-any.whl

Once the SolarGUI has been installed, you can simply launch it from the terminal/installation environment via,

SolarGUI

The user should be made aware of the fact that not all the physical, orbital, or observational parameters are known/available for the Moons of planets hence there will be None values when dealing with Moons of the planets.

The frontend of SolarGUI provides several buttons for stars, planets, moons, and other celestial objects.

Each button will open a new window with access to physical, orbital, observational (and optionally, images) buttons which contain information regarding the particular objects' parameters,

Clicking on the desired button will trigger a frame for the particular properties of the celestial object.

For example, if the user selects Physical Parameters, the following parameters will be listed

1. age,
2. mass,
3. radius,
4. volume,
5. density,
6. surface area,
7. surface gravity, and
8. escape velocity.

Similarly, clicking on the Orbital Parameters will trigger the frame with orbital parameters in it, such as

1. Semi-major axis
2. Eccentricity
3. Perihelion distance
4. Apehelian distance
5. Orbital period
6. Average orbital speed
7. Mean anomaly
8. Inclination
9. Longitude of ascending node
10. Argument of perihelion, and
11. Axial tilt.

Same goes for the Observational Parameters with values,

1. Mean apparent magnitude¹
2. Geometric albedo²
3. Distance from Earth³
4. Absolute Magnitude⁴
5. Mean angular size⁵

The dropdown menus will show various other units of measures. The equivalencies button on the top right can be used to see the equivalent values for other celestial objects.

The images button contains a few selected images for the celestial objects (for now, only Sun and the planets including Pluto)