SWETEST(1)
β¨ NAME β¨
swetest β the Swiss Ephemeris test application, bestie π« (it's from section 1 of the manual, iykyk)
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
swetest [PARAMS...]
π DESCRIPTION π
Okay so listen, swetest computes a complete set of geocentric planetary positions for a given date, or honestly for a whole sequence of dates if that's the vibe you're on. πΈ
Your input can be either:
- a date, or
- an absolute julian day number
Both work, pick your fighter. π
With the proper options, swetest can be used to output a printed ephemeris and transfer the data into other programs like spreadsheets for graphical display. Like, it literally feeds your spreadsheet era. π₯
And if you run it with no options at all? It will prompt you for an input date. No cap, it just asks. π«Ά
π HELP AND EXAMPLES π
-?,-hβ display whole info. That's it, that's the whole thing. Iconic honestly. π
π TODO π
- A complete man page. (not me leaving the man page itself as a WIP π it's giving unfinished masterpiece, fr fr)
Version 2.10.03-deb1, dated 2022-09-13 β that's the whole tea, bestie, go compute some planets πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: swetest 2.10.03-3 Β· AGPL-3.0-only
- debian trixie: swetest 2.10.03-3.1+b1 Β· AGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu noble: swetest 2.10.03-3build1 Β· AGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu questing: swetest 2.10.03-3.1
- ubuntu resolute: swetest 2.10.03-3.1build1 Β· AGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: swetest 2.10.03-3.1build1 Β· AGPL-3.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms