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International Space Station Tracker This Python script tracks the International Space Station (ISS) and sends an email notification when it is near the user's current location and it is currently dark outside. The script uses the requests library to make API requests to retrieve the ISS position and the user's sunrise/sunset times, and the smtplib library to send email notifications.

Usage To run the script, simply run the iss_tracker.py file in your Python environment:

python iss_tracker.py

The script will run continuously and check the user's location and the ISS position every 60 seconds. If the ISS is within +5 or -5 degrees of the user's position and it is currently dark outside, the script will send an email notification to the specified email address.

Files This project consists of the following file:

iss_tracker.py: Contains the code for the ISS tracker script.

Requirements This project requires the following Python libraries:

requests datetime smtplib

You can install these libraries using pip:

pip install requests datetime smtplib

Configuration Before running the script, you need to configure the following variables in the iss_tracker.py file:

MY_LAT: Your latitude MY_LONG: Your longitude my_email: Your email address password: Your email password to_addrs: The email address to send notifications to

License This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments This project was inspired by a challenge from the 100 Days of Code course on Udemy