diff --git a/astro/py-ephem/Makefile b/astro/py-ephem/Makefile
index 71505f4bd739..1e0dfa991285 100644
--- a/astro/py-ephem/Makefile
+++ b/astro/py-ephem/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 PORTNAME=	ephem
-PORTVERSION=	4.1.3
+PORTVERSION=	4.1.4
 CATEGORIES=	astro math python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	rhurlin@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Compute positions of the planets and stars
 WWW=		https://pypi.org/project/ephem/
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-USES=		python:3.7+ # Because of UnicodeDecodeError in ascii.py
+USES=		python:3.7+
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}/ephem/_libastro${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}.so
 
 do-test:
 	# WARNING: Testing via this command is deprecated and will be
 	# removed in a future version. Users looking for a generic test
 	# entry point independent of test runner are encouraged to use tox.
 	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${PYTHON_CMD} ${PYDISTUTILS_SETUP} test
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/astro/py-ephem/distinfo b/astro/py-ephem/distinfo
index beca291bd46f..22f53fc70b06 100644
--- a/astro/py-ephem/distinfo
+++ b/astro/py-ephem/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1640183112
-SHA256 (ephem-4.1.3.tar.gz) = 7fa18685981ba528edd504052a9d5212a09aa5bf15c11a734edc6a86e8a8b56a
-SIZE (ephem-4.1.3.tar.gz) = 1255144
+TIMESTAMP = 1671725427
+SHA256 (ephem-4.1.4.tar.gz) = 73a59f0d2162d1624535c3c3b75f956556bdbb2055eaf554a7bef147d3f9c760
+SIZE (ephem-4.1.4.tar.gz) = 1256106