Adding skyfield, a Python program for ephemerides computation and skyfield-data,

a minimal set of data files to work with py-skyfield.

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+from skyfield.api import load
+
+planets = load('de421.bsp')
+earth, mars = planets['earth'], planets['mars']
+
+ts = load.timescale()
+t = ts.now()
+position = earth.at(t).observe(mars)
+ra, dec, distance = position.radec()
+
+print(ra)
+print(dec)
+print(distance)