🌐Positions
Celestial body positions API
Positions API can return position for a single body or all available bodies. This is useful if you don't want to make multiple requests for each body, and don't want to get throttled by the API request limitations.
See Body Properties for the available properties of bodies.
Get all bodies positions
GET https://api.astronomyapi.com/api/v2/bodies/positions
Returns an iterable list of bodies and their properties in tabular format.
Query Parameters
Headers
{
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"dates": {
"from": "2020-12-20T09:00:00.000-05:00",
"to": "2020-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:00"
},
"observer": {
"location": {
"longitude": -84.39733,
"latitude": 38.775867,
"elevation": 0
}
},
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"2020-12-20T09:00:00.000-05:00",
"2020-12-21T09:00:00.000-05:00",
"2020-12-22T09:00:00.000-05:00",
"2020-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:00"
],
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},
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"id": "sun",
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}
},
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"string": "10° 2' 24\""
},
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"string": "131° 12' 36\""
}
},
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"string": "-24° 34' 12\""
}
},
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}
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}
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"string": "9° 57' 36\""
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