dharisd / iss_bot

Telegram bot to find when international space station passes over a location

ISS BOT

Telegram bot to find when iss will pass over your location. Uses skyfield todo calculations and matplotlib to plot graphs.sends image showing where on sky iss will be visible and rise/set time

Documentation

requires python 3.6+

bot.py : Is the bot and will reply to /allpasses and /visible

send_times.py: checks whether a visble pass is found for todayif found will send about it to a selected chatid. Can be setup as a cronjob to run everyday

Setup

Add token to bot.py and send_times.py change coords to your location in bot.py and send_times.py

pip install -r requirements.txt
python bot.py

TODO

use enviroments variables to store location and token