Welcome to the ISS Tracker project! This application allows you to track the International Space Station (ISS) in real-time on a map while also displaying the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

The ISS Tracker is a web-based application that combines two exciting features:

1. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Utilizing NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day API, to display a different astronomy picture each day. To reduce API calls and improve performance, the picture is cached and updated hourly.

2. Real-Time ISS Tracking: using the Open Notify API to fetch real-time data about the ISS's location and display it on a Leaflet map (which is using OpenStreetMaps). The ISS's position is updated every 3 seconds, providing an accurate representation of its movement.

• Real-time tracking of the ISS on a map.
• Daily changing astronomy pictures from NASA's API.
• Caching to reduce API calls and improve performance.
• User-friendly interface for an engaging experience.

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Leaflet.js for map visualization
• Nix and direnv for the development environment

Follow these steps to get the ISS Tracker up and running on your local machine:

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/spector700/iss-tracker.git
2. Navigate to the project directory: cd iss-tracker
3. If using nix then run nix develop and that will install all dependencies.

install pip and run pip install flask requests request-cahce.

4. Run the application using Python:

   python app.py

This will start the ISS Tracker application locally. You can access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:PORT, where PORT is the port number specified in app.py.