Is skyfield safe to use?

skyfield has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.54). DepScope rates its health at 67/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of skyfield?

The latest version of skyfield is 1.54, released 2026-01-18.

Does skyfield have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of skyfield.

Is skyfield deprecated?

No, skyfield is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.54 (2026-01-18).

What are alternatives to skyfield?

Popular alternatives to skyfield in PyPI include: boto3, urllib3, typing_extensions, setuptools, python-dateutil.

What license does skyfield use?

skyfield is licensed under MIT.

skyfield

pypiv1.54

Elegant astronomy for Python

License MITpermissive68 versions1 maintainers4 deps

http://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-skyfield/

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (4)

certifi jplephem numpy sgp4

API access

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