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# Welcome to XEphem!
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XEphem is an interactive astronomy program for all UNIX platforms.
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More screenshots are shown below.
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* Documentation lives at <https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/>
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where Elwood Downey —
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XEphem’s original author and its maintainer since the 1990s —
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offers a manual, data files, and user contributed scripts.
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* Elwood Downey has generously released XEphem under the MIT License!
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An “XEphem” organization has been created on GitHub
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to host XEphem’s [source code](https://github.com/XEphem/XEphem).
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* The XEphem community hopes to modernize the code
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to make it easier to compile, package, and run on modern systems.
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In the meantime,
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XEphem compiles most readily on older Linux platforms
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like Ubuntu 14.04.
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* If you want to get started immediately,
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a Docker image
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that successfully compiles and runs XEphem atop Ubuntu 14.04
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is available in the “docker” branch on GitHub.
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It’s documented
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[in this README file](https://github.com/XEphem/XEphem/blob/docker/container/README.md).
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* Otherwise,
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if you want to tackle XEphem development on another platform,
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start with the
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[INSTALL](https://github.com/XEphem/XEphem/blob/main/INSTALL)
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file in the `main` branch of the repository.
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* Direct questions to the main repository’s
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[GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/XEphem/XEphem/discussions)
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by clicking “New discussion” and writing up your question.
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A few more screenshots:
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