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Ability to read INPOP ephemerides
It would be helpful to read the European INPOP ephemerides like INPOP21a:
https://www.imcce.fr/recherche/equipes/asd/inpop/download21a
They claim to make files in the JPL format, but as far as I can tell from a quick look they are not actually compatible. They have different starting data (INPOP21a
vs. the DAF/
or NAIF/DAF
that jplephem
wants) and different structures too.
I don't know how complicated the differences are. I realize that INPOP does provide their own python routines, but we are using astropy
which implicitly assumes that the ephemerides will be handled by jplephem
, so changes here may be the simplest.