Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal(github.com)
234 points by nvmdbljstm 3 days ago | 27 comments
tl;dr: Astroterm is a lightweight C-based terminal planetarium that renders real-time positions of stars, planets, constellations, and moon phases in ASCII. Users can customize views by date, time, and location (via coordinates or city name), making it possible to visualize past, present, or future night skies. It's available via package managers like pacman, dnf, and Homebrew, or as prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Appreciation for the project's creativity and craftsmanship, including its README quality
  • •Sharing related or similar tools and projects (phoon, Casio watch, scheduler, gno.world)
  • ↑Successfully adopted the tool for personal use, such as a screensaver
  • ↓Questions the suitability of a TUI format for this type of visualization
  • •Requests feature expansions like tracking satellites (ISS, Starlink)