# SpicePy Discussion

**URL:** <https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spicepy-discussion/135>\
**Category:** PDW 2019\
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spicepy-discussion/135 "2019-06-19T21:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![thare](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/thare/32/37_2.png) [@thare](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/thare)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spicepy-discussion/135/1 "2019-06-19T21:17:57Z")

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Andrew provided a quick introduction to SpicePy

- Comments

- What applications are using SpiceyPy. Andrew: HelioPy, Time Magazine, American Museum of Natural History, lots of other sites

- Andew went over one of his examples from: [https://spiceypy.readthedocs.io/en/master/lessonindex.html](https://spiceypy.readthedocs.io/en/master/lessonindex.html)

- Are you using Numpy. Yes change of heart from simple lists. It is more commonly used and comes standard in Conda, etc.

- Tests are using PyTest and tests are from NAIF. They can be seen on github. And they are run in a continuous environment for each pull.

reminder for some other intro SPICE videos too: [https://www.openplanetary.org/tutorials](https://www.openplanetary.org/tutorials)

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**Author:** ![cbellh47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/cbellh47/32/60_2.png) [@cbellh47](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/cbellh47)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spicepy-discussion/135/2 "2019-07-03T22:44:25Z")

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Hello. I went through the tutorial today and got all to work from your python code.  
Thanks for sharing.

I use Spyder launched via Anaconda and simply copy and paste code fragments, and experiment and learn.

I have been using cosmographia for solar system bodies, asteroids and comets for objects I study.  
" [SPICE-enhanced Cosmographia](http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/cosmographia_components.html)"

I use the Asteroid & Comet SPK File Generation Request web page to get bsp files.  
[https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/x/spk.html](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/x/spk.html)

It was simple to add in plots of a couple of comets into the spiceypy tutorial code.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/openplanetary/original/1X/cc8cbff19ede67878bed022363204736132b4c8a.png)  
I went to the naif site and got the latest lsk files  
[https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic\_kernels/lsk/](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/)

latest\_leapseconds.tls  
or  
latest\_leapseconds.tls.pc

and to [Index of /pub/naif/generic\_kernels/spk/planets/a\_old\_versions](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/spk/planets/a_old_versions/)  
for de405.bsp

I like to go to the official spice sources  
stuff like that might help others

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**Author:** ![nmanaud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/nmanaud/32/8_2.png) [@nmanaud](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/nmanaud)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spicepy-discussion/135/3 "2019-07-04T20:43:19Z")

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Hi @cbellh47, and thanks a lot for sharing your feedback on the tutorial. You’re referring to @matt’s tutorial series right?: [https://www.openplanetary.org/tutorial-series/intro-to-spice](https://www.openplanetary.org/tutorial-series/intro-to-spice).

Feel free to post more of your experiments, learnings or problems in [http://openplanetary.discourse.group/c/training-and-education/intro-to-spice](http://openplanetary.discourse.group/c/training-and-education/intro-to-spice)