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Make coordinates.solar_system_ephemeris accept local ephemeris file

See original GitHub issue

astropy.coordinates.solar_system_ephemeris.set() currently (version 3.1) has the possibility of accepting one of the presets (e.g. ‘builtin’, ‘de430’) or an URL pointing to another ephemeris to use. But if I have an ephemeris already downloaded to a local file, it does not allow me to pass the path to this local file to use.

It doesn’t work to specify the local file in URL format either i.e. “file://path/to/file.bsp”.

My suggestion would be to either make it possible to specify a local file either using the URL format specified above or allowing to pass the path to the local file directly.

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rhandbergcommented, May 28, 2019

@mhvk - I’ll give it a try… PR coming soon!

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Cadaircommented, May 24, 2019

or just run python -m http.server in the directory it is in so you can put in a localhost:8000 url?!

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