A Chicken Scheme wrapper around the libnova library which is "a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library" available under the GNU LPGL.

Clone the repository and run chicken-install, then (use ephem).

Functions tend to be named the same as their libnova counterparts with dashes instead of underscores and dropping any "ln-" or "ln-get-" prefix. Also, "->" is used instead of "to".

Functions that take pointers to structures as arguments now take scheme record types defined in ephem-common.scm.

On exception is date functions where srfi-19 functions are used instead of the library functions.

The substantive parts of libnova have been implemented, but not everything has been tested for accuracy. Use caution before relying on the results.

####### Notes

If chicken-install fails to find libnova, "export CSC_OPTIONS='-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib'" may help.